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From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit needed
Summary: MacKermit works just fine for me, as does Red Ryder (now White Knight)
Message-ID: <1823@tssi.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 90 08:10:05 GMT
References: <1990Aug31.175252.16986@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Tailored Software Svcs., Lincoln, Neb.
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MacKermit (available from Columbia University and on many archives and BBSs)
works fine.  The biggest negative is that it doesn't support very many 
terminal emulation modes (tty, vt100, and that's pretty much it.)  The biggest
positive is probably that it's FREE, and supports just about every kermit 
option I've ever needed or even heard of.  I have 0.94, but there may be a
more current version.

The Kermit routines in Red Ryder work OK, but occasionally cause problems with
certain systems I call, (and won't work at all with one of them) and don't 
have as much flexibility as MacKermit.

(Scott Watson apparently believes that there is no such thing as a kermit
site that can run in server mode ONLY.)  RR also doesn't support many of
the kermit packets such as FINISH and CHANGE DIRECTORY.  I don't know if
White Knight does, I've never seen enough good information about WK to
make me want to upgrade.  So I'm still running RR 10.3.
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