SSL File Transfer

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Dec 09 14:39 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
Fairlight sent this to stdout: 

> 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.

It has been doing that for many many years now.

> > 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.

I stopped using that when I moved from Windows 3.11 to 95 - or
somewhere in that era.  I never found it satisfying myself.

Bill




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