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From: v125lqbx@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Brian T McColpin)
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Subject: Re: !!!!!!!HELP!!!!!!
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Date: 21 May 91 19:49:39 GMT
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In article <1525@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes...
>In article <91140.181916U43428@uicvm.uic.edu> U43428@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>>
>>Hello fellow Amiga users. I have resently purchased an A500 and having a few
>>problems to go along with it. I have the Jr Comm terminal program and I was
>>wondering if there was an way that I might be able to transfer text files
>>between my school main frame account and my Amiga. The computer center on
>>campus said that I would need somthing called Amiga Kermit. I have looked for
>>this terminal program for quit sometime now but have found no luck. If any of
>>the more advanced Amiga users out there have an advice for me please reply.
> 
>Well, if you must use Kermit, you can't use JR-Comm (at the moment -- you

You could use Handshake, which has Kermit built in.  Or alternatively, you
could just use the ascii send/capture features of just about any terminal 
program.  This is not totally stable, as it does no error checking, is
subject to line noise and accidental messages (such as getting a "received
mail" message while you're transfering a file, and having that end up as part
of the captured text - very annoying. :-)

But if you want to play it safe, get a terminal program that has Kermit
built in.  Handshake does, and I think several others do so as well.
Maybe the fellow who designed JRCOMM didn't take into account just how
backward many computer sites still are, using antiquated protocols
like Kermit...  :-)