Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Uploading to UNIX systems Message-ID: <13190@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 05:38:25 GMT References: <1991Mar6.053412.22781@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar7.093818.18864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 21 >Kermit was specifically designed to handle all sorts of adverse >communications situations - x/y/zmodem, on the other hand, were >designed with other goals in mind. And is slow as molasses! >Is my path into the machine 8 bits? telnet usually is, rlogin usually >isn't. Not something you usually think of, but when you get down to >"how are the bits getting through the wire" - it's stuff you have to >know. You can force rlogin to be an 8 bit connection.. I presume that downloading is one of the reasons this was added, but I'm not sure. As in: rlogin wherever -8 --