> Tom Buskey wrote: >> I've always liked kermit (ckermit). It runs on *everything*. More >> systems then zip/unzip and almost as many as "Hello, world!". > > Yep. I used Kermit quite extensively back in the day when I was dialing > into various UNIX and mainframe hosts with a 2400bps modem on my Mac > laptop. > > Kermit totally rocks. You can adjust everything about your connection. > It saved me lots of time on numerous occasions by adjusting the download > window size when I got a bad line. > > Its scriptability was a very handy feature, too. I could script sessions > and automate downloads of data from one server to my UNIX account and > then start the download to my computer, all while I sleep.
I scripted it to monitor a Micropolis Radeon RAID box. Saved us when the supplied software didn't detect a failed disk. And the builtin beeper didn't beep either. Of course, that wasn't much worse then the Radeon either. > > I forget where you get the source code. Is it still at columbia.edu? Yep. I think they charge for the windows version. When I need a serial terminal, I get a dos version from the old simtel20 sources. > > As for portability, I think ckermit runs on more hardware than NetBSD. > See above. NetBSD portability comes somewhere *after* zip/unzip. Kermit runs on many more systems then all the BSDs combined. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss