Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Kermit Message-ID: <8802261749.aa09981@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 26 Feb 88 22:38:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (an address that bounces mail by the way) writes: > It also supports Kermit protocol so you don't have to use Kermit >anymore. That's true, but ProTerm costs $$$ while Kermit is public domain (it DOES have a copyright, and I believe there is a nominal fee commercial users are supposed to remit to Columbia). Kermit 3.81 does a rather nice VT-100, supports the IIgs keypad, AND permits wildcard file transfers (batch transfers). Unfortunately, the use of 6-bit encoding adapted from the EXECUTIONER seems to be causing more than a small amount of corruption of the code. It has proven difficult to transmit reliable copies even within bitnet much less across nets. The principal limitation I see with Kermit is that most BBS's (Fido boards are an exception) don't support Kermit (Xmodem or some variant of that are the protocols of choice in the BBS World). Hence, ProTerm probably is the best available all purpose Apple commware value (I like SOFTERM 2 rather well for myself, but I wrote the exorbitant price off as a business expense several years ago; alas, it is not competitively priced for today's environment). --------------------- Disclaimer: My employer often is appalled by my opinions, and my facts may be only vaguely right . ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut