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From: hummel@csd2.UUCP (Robert Hummel)
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Subject: Re: Kermit as a server
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 12:45:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 12:45:00 1985
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>        Most implementations of KERMIT for mainframe as well as other
>   publicly available systems, have server capabilities.

We have a semantic problem here. The "server" mode of Kermit is not
the same as a FILE server; a file server should look like an attached
mass storage device to the local system. The Kermit "server" is a
communications server, a different kind of thing altogether.

		Tony Movshon (using a friend's account)

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