Hello Anthony - ---------- > >> >I'm guessing from your signature you work at a University? > >> > > >> >Seems Kermit is a hard sell otherwise but academia is well aware > >> >of it's usefulness, or so it seems. > >> > > >> >Good to know there are other fans of DOS MSKermit out there. > > > >> Yes, I do work at a USA university. It has its ups and downs, like any > >> job. > > > >That wasn't a `dig'. I know from many years of using MSKermit that > >academia considers kermit a useful tool while other PC users think > >kermit is old/dead software. > > Okay, thank you. Lately, I've gotten (not from this forum) a number of > put-downs, because I work for a University, instead of having gone out > and ridden the bubble of the .com-s or working for some publicly-traded > company. So it is a bit of a sore spot with me, right now.
Most are probably a bit jealous. I had originally planned a career for myself as an academic but life got in the way. I admit to a small amount of jealousy when I find people who are living my `other life'. ;'-) Take it from one who traveled the other road it's not as interesting as people try to make it sound. At university everyone has one thing in common. They are/were all there to learn and have a respect for knowledge. This is not the case in the population at large. Most are only there for the money and often have no respect for their own profession or any of the people in it. Totally different enviroment. I often refer to it as working in a whore house - same environment,. anything for the money and I do mean anything. > >> Kermit is merely the one that comes to mind most easily, as it's > >> common, not too hard to find, and free, and has versions for nearly > >> every OS out there. > > > >Others outside of academia aren't aware that it is available for many OS > >nor is it `common' in their toolbox. > <SNIP> > > Don't know why it wouldn't be, but, yes, I agree, that seems to be the > case. The Kermit protocol, in all its forms, is still handy... though > TCP/IP seems to be overtaking it, these days. I've had unpleasant exchanges with `the kermit team' about how they've mismanaged public relations for the kermit protocol which do popup if you scan usenet via Google. Prof. Joseph Doupnik seemed a more reasonable fellow and did give me the URL to his personal desktop machine where the most up to date MSKermit for DOS can be found along with source code. It's linked at my website. Prof. J. Doupnik is the lesser-known contributor to kermit but I like MSKermit a great deal myself. Executes on an XT as effectively as on an AT machine. :-) > For those who are interested: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/kermit.html > > and especially for DOS: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html Links to the DOS version, MSKermit, are also located on the DOS pages of my tech website listed below. Charles.Angelich DOS the Ghost in the Machine! Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia orginal stories with animation and sound, poetry, music, and photography: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
