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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: transfering files
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:21:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.162107.20000@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1dn911INN30h@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In <1dn911INN30h@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> sdstpk@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stephen D. Spencer) writes:
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- :Is there any way to get cu to pass control of a remote session to a protocol
- :engine like rz? I need to download some files with long file names
- :(name.tar.Z). Thanks in advance...
-
- Cu just isn't the comm program for this job. You need to use a
- program like xc which does exactly what you're asking. Kermit is
- also good, particularly if you have a need for its server
- functions. Recent versions of c-kermit and MS-kermit are quite
- adequate regarding speed with large packet sizes and sliding
- windows (as opposed to the poor kermit implementations of most
- comm programs).
-
- Bill
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