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From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (chaplin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: laptops and connection to servers
Message-ID: <1991May17.155127.401@keinstr.uucp>
Date: 17 May 91 15:51:27 GMT
References: <1991May13.145950.18102@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
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In article <1991May13.145950.18102@hollie.rdg.dec.com> carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty) writes:
>I won't have a NI card in the machine,but would like to copy files from
>a server in
>a pathworks environ.
>What utilities would I need and if people have done similar( I'm sure
>it's I'm pretty 
>ignorant of comms utilites)
>Any other info would be most useful ie set ups ,versions of
>utilities,baud rates,anything
>that covers laptop serial connectivity.
>
> I hope this is not too vague
>
>     
> Hugh Carty, carty@ayfis5.ayo.dec.com
>                       carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty)

I connect my laptop to my Sun SPARCstation SLC with a serial cable and
use Kermit on both machines.  Kermit is a public domain communication
program which is widely available.  There is a new version of Kermit
out now for MS-DOS which I find to work quite well with the Kermit on
my Sun.  My laptop is a 20MHz 386 machine.  Communication seems very
reliable at speeds up to 19.2 Kbaud.  (Back when I had a Sun 3/80 I
could reliably run the link at 38.4 Kbaud.)

The Kermit on my Sun shows this rev information:
    C-Kermit, 4E(070) 29 Jan 88, 4.2 BSD

The Kermit on my laptop shows this rev information:
    IBM-PC MS-Kermit: 3.01 20 March 1990

I got the latest MS-Kermit from CompuServe, and the Sun C-Kermit was put
on our network by our system administrator.  Sorry I can't direct you to
Internet sources for these.  Perhaps someone else can help.
-- 
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