SSL File Transfer

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>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 can.

>> 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.

The first thing that I saw with procomm that turned me off totally was that
pressing F1 didn't send anything, but put me in some stupid menu.  A
terminal program that doesn't properly send the function keys is
fundamentally broken.

Telix was the only PC/DOS communications program that I used extensively.
I used mostly because of its scripting language when I was doing software
to automatically back up PCs at night.  This was almost fourteen years ago,
and I was using perl on DOS, writing batch files and telix scripts to do
the communications.  That was only the second time (and last) I worked in a
Microsoft environment.  The first was when I wrote a conversion program for
MicroRim to convert old rBase applications to rBase 3.0.  I did all
development on SCO Xenix, cross-compiling the C program for DOS.

Bill
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