SSL File Transfer

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:01:56AM -0800,
>Steven Waters took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> 
>> >One option that I found seemed to point to OpenSSL and Kermit as a
>> >solution but I have never had any luck compiling stuff on a SCO system. It
>> >just never seems to work for me.
>> 
>> >Anybody else have any bright ideas?
>> 
>> I have been struggling with Kermit on my SCO box and my old Red Hat 8.0.
>> Has anyone been successful with Kermit?
>
>Do I -want- to know why people are using kermit 15+ years later when there
>are much more robust programs and protocols out there?

More robust than ckermit?  I doubt it.  In my experience ckermit
worked much better than any other communications program and/or
protocol, particularly on less than perfect phone lines.  Using
the sliding windows options, kermit is at least as fast as zmodem
or other reliable protocols.

I don't use ckermit much these days as I only have three customers
who don't have secure shell Internet access, but it's still the
most robust and efficient serial comm. program I've found (with
apologies to JP and xc or whatever it's called these days :-).

Bill
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