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From: ken@argus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uucp vs kermit
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 07:10:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 07:10:59 1987
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In article <122@njitsc1.UUCP>, bc@njitsc1.UUCP (Bill Cheswick) writes:
> In article <7319@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> >The point is, why should we use those icky uucp protocols that are
> >hardly documented, and unused except in some proprietary sofware
> 
>Because it is faster.  Compare the transfer speeds of uucp and kermit: you only
> get about half your baud rate in kermit file transfers.  uucp does better.

uucp may transfer data faster, but kermit has managed to jump the most
formidable barrier I know of to date with ease:  going from a Unix box
to an IBM 4361 via a 7171 protocal converter.  That is what I consider
a very good trick.  Furthermore Kermit runs on every major machine I've
used, including some of the really odd combinations down at EIES.  To
my knowledge, uucp is limited to Unix and ms-dos.

> Bill Cheswick                      uucp:   bellcore!argus!njitsc1!bc
> New Jersey Inst. of Tech.          ARPA:   argus!njitsc1!bc@flash.bellcore.com
>                                    bitnet: bc%argus.uucp at mouton.arpa"

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