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From: reggers@julian.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uucp vs. kermit
Message-ID: <264@julian.UWO.CDN>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 12:32:27 EST
Article-I.D.: julian.264
Posted: Tue Apr 14 12:32:27 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 02:41:34 EST
Reply-To: reggers@julian.UWO.CDN (Reg Quinton)
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Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
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Keywords: kermit, quick, dirty

I can't help but comment on this debate since we've been using Kermit for
well over a year as the transport protocol to link many different machines
together for the purpose of E-mail. Here's an abstract to a paper I wrote
about a year ago describing our system.

		MLNET: Using Kermit to Build a Network
			(Interim Solutions)

     MLNET  is  an  electronic mail network at The University of Western
     Ontario which links a diverse set  of  machines  (VM/CMS,  VAX/VMS,
     Tops-10,  CDC/NOS,  Unix, and Prime) and provides a gateway service
     between several mail networks (BITNET, UUCP, CDN, MLNET, and others
     through  remote  gateways).  Kermit  is  a  public domain protocol,
     developed at Columbia, available for a diverse set of machines, and
     typically  used  for  PC  to  mainframe  file  transfer  under user
     control. The MLNET/MFS uses Kermit protocols,  when  available,  to
     transport mail messages -- machines with Kermit can be added to the
     network with minimal programming effort.  This  paper  reviews  the
     design of the MLNET/MFS and shows how Kermit solves a major problem
     for our network. The system provides an attractive interim strategy
     since  it  may  be  implemented  on machines as small as the IBM AT
     (under  Xenix),  connects   over   available   asynchronous   lines
     (including  modems), transports messages using available protocols,
     and requires minimal programming effort to add new hosts.
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