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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991Jun04.221455.7761@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Jun 91 22:14:55 GMT
References: <42955@cup.portal.com> <lyndon.676060395@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <lyndon.676060395@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:

>I see. How do you plan to coerce the majority of BITNET sites that
>are large IBM mainframes using EBCDIC character sets and NJE to support
>your UUCP protocol? Or even xmodem for that matter? (Does anyone out
>there know of a port of UUCP to MVS/CMS/??? Just the thought makes
>me shudder.)

Not that it has anything to do with the rest of the discussion, but
kermit actually works quite well under CMS if you have dial-up
access.  It is pretty bizarre what it has to do to make the ASCII
CRC's come out right even though it's working in EBCDIC...
The recent ones even have server mode and long packet support.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us