Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!algor2.algorists.com!jeffrey
From: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Networking UNIX and MS-DOS
Keywords: network UNIX MSDOS
Message-ID: <1989Sep4.012208.5963@algor2.algorists.com>
Date: 4 Sep 89 01:22:08 GMT
References: <13400@well.UUCP> <515@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Algorists, Inc.
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In article <515@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <13400@well.UUCP> sjm@well.UUCP (Stephen Moehle) writes:
>>We have a machine running System V/386 3.0e.1, and a lot of PCs running MSDOS.
>>We would like to somehow network these things together at least well enough
>>to do file transfers of some kind.  How can this be done?
>
>uPort includes a working version of C-Kermit.
>Get a copy of Kermit-MS 2.32/A for the PCs.  Ain't fast, but it is free.
>

Kermit is how I used to do it, til I found a better way yet.  I have
Lachman TCP/IP for my UNIX box, and got Phil Karn's KA9Q for the DOS
machine.  Documentation stinks, but it is free and otherwise of very
high quality.  I run them atop Ethernet.  Ethernet boards for AT bus
machines are astonishingly cheap.

In case you do not have another way to get TCP/IP on your UNIX box,
there is said to be a KA9Q for Unix, though I have not tried it.
Kermit atop Ethernet would be a further improvement, but Kermit does
not seem to support it.

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Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
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