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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
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Subject: File Transfer with Minix
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Date: 28 Nov 90 19:31:02 GMT
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Up until this point, I've done all my file transfers to/from Minix
by taking the easy way out - use DOS for file transfers, and then
use dosread/doswrite to transfer data to/from Minix itself.

The time has probably come now to get DOS out of the loop.  I know
there are several choices: (a) kermit (b) zmodem (c) uucp, (d) ?.  
Of course, I'd *really* like to use ftp, but we can't always have our
ruthers :-)

So, within what is available, is there any sort of general concensus
as to what is best?  Since I've never had any interest in this before,
I haven't paid much attention to what was said on the net about it.
(As someone within another group put it so well: "the current is always
flowing in the river, but one is not usually thirsty....")

Since this may be of general interest (is it?) if anyone who has some
input can e-mail me, I will summarize for the net.  (Yes, I really will
summarize!)  The term "best" should be defined as solid, well-documented,
easy to use, fast, in that order.




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John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
   WB4LOQ (why? I dunno....everyone else seems to be doing it.  _._)