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- From: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: A question on TCP/IP with Kermit
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:25:28 GMT
- Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
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- Message-ID: <ashok.307.728277928@biochemistry.cwru.edu>
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- In article <2B688DF5.7434@news.service.uci.edu> toyofuku@tahiti.lib.uci.edu (Anthony D. Toyofuku) writes:
-
- >Yesterday, to my delight I stumbled on the fact that Kermit now supports
- >TCP/IP. And now that I've discovered it, I've got a few questions. I'm
- >using an old PS/2 8086, connect by Ethernet to the campus backbone, then
- >going out to the Internet. By way of introduction, I would consider
- >myself a Telnet user, not a hacker of Telnet.
-
- Also on VMS systems, I find Kermit's implementation of Tek 4014 emulation to
- be more reliable than that in CUTCP v2.2E or NCSA Telnet 2.3.05
-
- >1. When scrolling through many pages of text, is Kermit slower than
- > NCSA Telnet or is it just my imagination? If it is slower, is
- > there any way I can speed it up?
-
- I believe that Kermit might be directing video input/output via the BIOS.
- Perhaps I am incorrect.
-
- >2. The reason I find Telnet appealing is because of the ability to
- > write script files. While I don't know of this ability in Telnet,
- > maybe it is possible. Is it possible to write auto-login scripts
- > in NCSA Telnet? How do you go about doing it? Is there any
- > documentation anywhere?
-
- Yes, you can script with NCSA Telnet. Get the documentation from:
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in PC/Telnet
-
- Ashok
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- Ashok Aiyar
- Department of Biochemistry
- CWRU School of Medicine
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