SSL File Transfer

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Campbell said here...:
> 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 dunno, I always had good luck with Term ][+ on the Apple ][e, and
Procomm+ on PC's...be it the DOS or 'doze versions.

Does kermit's xfer resume like zmodem's?  I didnt think it did resumes at
all.

> 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 :-).

What was wrong with Procomm Plus?  I don't think I ever had an issue with
it.

mark->
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