Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!anderson From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: file transfer sun<-->NeXT Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 14:47:24 GMT Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Lines: 17 As the happy new owner of a home NeXT, naturally my first priority is to be able to move various stuff between it and my office net-connected Sun. That involves transferring files (sometimes rather large ones) between the two machines over the phone. What are my options? Basic connectivty is provided by tip, but tip's ~t/~p file transfer is only useful for comparatively short ascii files. Kermit is agonizingly slow. The base zmodem programs rz/sz don't run within tip. What else is there? Maybe someone has written something comparable to Zterm for the mac? I can't find anything in the archives on sonata.cc.purdue.edu that looks like a plausible candidate (though many of the names are less than transparent, in the absence of abstracts). The only commercial thing I find in the catalogue is Communicae, which doesn't seem to support zmodem: can anyone report on whether this (a) actually exists; (b) is worth the money? Steve Anderson