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Re: Software infrastructure
According to Pat Farrell:
> >As for "is kermit good enough?" No. Almost NO ONE in the DOS world uses
> >it any more,
> ..flames elided...
>
> I agree that the PC-centric BBS world has decided that Kermit is obsolete.
Maybe it's just us... ;^)
> Kermit is continually improving and is very nearly as fast as ZMODEM.
Maybe I have a slow version, but I have NEVER gotten comparable results 'tween
kermit and zmodem, or even ymodem. Usually it's a 2:1 difference.
> It is available for nearly all platforms, is free, and source is availilbe.
> It includes NASI support directly. It has a very nice (powerful) scripting
> language. It also works over TCP/IP networks for folks with the luck
> to be Ethernet'd into the Internet (like most of the faculty and staff here
> at GMU). It also has very strong backward compatibility.
This is worth considering...
> I expect that Kermit is good enuff if you are interested in commandline
> scripts for plain old DOS. And the scripting language is also
> supported by the C version that run on nearly all Unixs and most other
> boxes. This would allow a single script to support a lot of users.
> I'm not interestedin DOS and command lines, but if some other
> cypherpunk wants to try, I'm sure not going to complain.
What do you mean by "commandline script?"
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