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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Transferring files over a serial port
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- References: <11SEP199215524779@cc.utah.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.235758.7569@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:57:58 GMT
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- Prasad B. Gharpure (prasad@cc.utah.edu) wrote:
-
- : 1) Is it possible with linux to login from another pc connected
- : to the linux machine by a null modem cable.
-
- Yes. I've done it at up to 38.4KB.
-
- : 2) How can I transfer files from the linux machine to the other pc
- : using a null modem cable ( I have used kermit for dos on both
- : machines to achive the above ).
-
- There's kermit. It's got a high packet overhead, since the packets are
- small, but it's got the advantage that you can do something like:
-
- tar cvf - /|kermit [options] -l /dev/ttyN
-
- and on the other machine...
-
- kermit [options] | (cd /;tar xvf -)
-
- Works pretty cool!
-
- You could also use uucp (from mailpak or get taylor-uucp from convex.com
- and port it yourself; it's also on prep.ai.mit.edu). If you drop in the
- zmodem patches, you'll get (at 38.4KB) over 3700 CPS throughput. Amazing!
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
-