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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What to do with rs232 on Minix-ST
Keywords: RS232 ST
Message-ID: <1853@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:45:53 GMT
References: <330@lzaz.ATT.COM> <2625@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <2625@munnari.oz> muller@munnari.oz (Paul Muller) writes:
>I have the sources (as, I imagine, would many others) to X/YMODEM, SEAlink,
>and one or two others that elude me at the moment. I also have a few uucp
>sources here, one sould compile for V7, has Andy seen any? I was surprised
>to find that one wan't included when I first read his book.

I haven't seen any.  The reason I didn't mention X/YMODEM in the book probably
has to do with the fact that I don't have the foggiest idea of what 
(it is)/(they are).  I know about uucp, kermit, X.25, 802, and OSI.  Does this
supersede any of these?  I hope it supersedes OSI, because that is the one
most in need of being superseded.  For MINIX, I suspect kermit is going to be
the standard file transfer mechanism (other than the Amoeba networking for
people with Ethernets).  Kermit is available on all known machines, and the
MINIX version seems pretty stable and reasonably efficient.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)