Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kgw2!dennisg From: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: file transfer sun<-->NeXT Message-ID: <1886@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM> Date: 15 Nov 90 12:25:49 GMT References: Sender: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM Reply-To: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Xetron Corporation, Cincinnati Ohio Lines: 25 In article , anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) writes: |> |> 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 set up a uucp connection. -- ..!uunet!kgw2!dennisg | Dennis P. Glatting dennisg@Xetron.WEC.COM | X2NeXT developer