SSL File Transfer

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Simon--er, no...it was Bill Vermillion--said:
>> 
>> So what is it that >>CURRENT<< kermit programs don't support that
>> you think of in terms of robustness or protocols. Disintegrating
>> minds want to know :-)  The topic of this thread was SSL transfers.
>
>Well, I wouldn't know because I gave up on kermit as anything but a
>last-resort effort on serial dialups years ago because it didn't cut it for
>me features-wise compared to things like Procomm and Term ][+.
>
>I've never needed to use it since I've been in a network situation.  The
>last time I used it was probably 1993.

Even in 1993, ckermit had things like sliding windows, resume transfers,
etc., but many telcom program's kermit protocol implementations were sadly
lacking.  Back in the days when our Internet connection was a 56k frame
relay circuit, I frequently used ckermit to do file transfers as it was
faster and more reliable than other options I knew about at the time
(kermit does support telnet).

Furthermore, the official DOS versions of kermit had some pretty good
terminal emulations and scripting capabilities.  Many of the other
DOS/Windows communctions programs had pretty poor terminal emulations
(although probably they would be considered good by the Microsoft Windows
telnet program standards :-).

Anzio was probably the first comm program that offered good ANSI emulation
for SCO Xenix and OpenServer systems.

Bill
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