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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Modem Software
Summary: use cu
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Date: 7 Dec 90 18:13:24 GMT
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Instead of searching for a "modem program", one might try cu on an IRIS or
tip on some other machines.

The advantage of cu/tip is that it is almost always present on the machine
you happen to be using, it uses the dialing facilities you have probably
already set up for UUCP, SLIP, etc., and it uses the machine's
xterm/wsh/whatever directly.

Kermit, *modem, et al do far better file transfering than cu or tip, but
that is not saying much.  File transfers using NFS, rcp, or ftp are
incomparable better than anything stuffed into a modem program.  Of
course, you can't use the good stuff unless you are running IP over the
link.  If you run SLIP over the link, then you get multiple windows and the
rest of the good stuff.


Vernon Schryver,    vjs@sgi.com