[ On Thu, January 21, 1999 at 20:26:39 (EST), Jeffrey Altman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How do I sz/rz under an ssh connection?
>
> > > C-Kermit would happily use an SSH connection if only SSH did not
> > > require that its parent process be a PTY.
> >
> > I don't think that would be necessary if kermit could be told to connect
> > and listen on specified TCP/IP ports.
>
> I can and has been for many years.
>
> SET HOST * <port>
Hmm... I didn't know about this, and it's not given as an example in
the on-line help. I was looking for a command-line option on C-Kermit
to tell it to listen on a specified port (presumably in "server" mode),
but I didn't see one....
> SET HOST <host> <port>
It should be possible then to tunnel a kermit connection through SSH,
though I've never set SSH tunnels up, so I don't have a cook-book
example of how this might be done...
Mind you I wouldn't recommend using SSH tunnels in order to aggregate
multiple connections through a single encrypted tunnel (and thus save
typing the password or passphrase for each connection), at least not
until you're using Version 2 of the SSH protocol where proper flow
control has supposedly been implemented.
> Your big assumption that is false is that everyone is using Unix and
> has Unix style command line tools. However, you are still missing the
> point. You are comfortable with Unix tools, not everyone is. The
> fact that you like doing things one way does not mean that everyone
> else should.
I have not been assuming that, at least not for the basic question that
started this thread, though indeed to answer your extended proposal I
assumed that some reasonably rich command-line interface and tool suite
was available at both ends....
> BTW, will scp transfer directory trees with permissions and timestamp
> information between Unix and VMS? Kermit can.
I don't know. Is there an SSH for VMS? Is there a "tar" or "cpio" or
"zip" or other archiving tool available for both VMS and Unix? If the
answer to both these questions is "yes", then the answer to your
question is "yes". I can count the number of times I've used VMS on the
fingers of one hand, and I want to keep it that way.
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