I agree... I was there. In the '70s thru '90s, as I'd bring up a "remote" system, Kermit was usually one of the first utilities (now, "packages") that I'd install post-OS. And, since the first order of business was getting to the point where xfer of files was possible to/from that remote, finding a way to get Kermit itself there was an ever-fresh problem of bootstrapping ingenuity. "Kermit could send data over a comm-link only slightly better than two tin cans and a wet string." In the last decade of the last millennium, Kermit was one of my mainstay tools in supporting mission-critical remote application systems, e.g., transferring the day's code developments into on-site testing, and thence into production. I must have logged thousands of K-sessions, and many times more actual file xfers. Today, we routinely transfer G-bytes around without much thought -- take it for granted. Thinking about it, I probably moved only a few G-bytes total with Kermit... but it did haul it, and reliably, without much fuss, across hetro platforms, and with some pretty nifty scripted support. End of an era. Thanks esp. to Frank and Christine.
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I agree... I was there. In the '70s thru '90s, as I'd bring up a "remote" system, Kermit was usually one of the first utilities (now, "packages") that I'd install post-OS. And, since the first order of business was getting to the point where xfer of files was possible to/from that remote, finding a way to get Kermit itself there was an ever-fresh problem of bootstrapping ingenuity. "Kermit could send data over a comm-link only slightly better than two tin cans and a wet string." In the last decade of the last millennium, Kermit was one of my mainstay tools in supporting mission-critical remote application systems, e.g., transferring the day's code developments into on-site testing, and thence into production. I must have logged thousands of K-sessions, and many times more actual file xfers. Today, we routinely transfer G-bytes around without much thought -- take it for granted. Thinking about it, I probably moved only a few G-bytes total with Kermit... but it did haul it, and reliably, without much fuss, across hetro platforms, and with some pretty nifty scripted support. End of an era. Thanks esp. to Frank and Christine.