According to Pat Farrell:
As for "is kermit good enough?" No. Almost NO ONE in the DOS world uses it any more, ..flames elided...
I agree that the PC-centric BBS world has decided that Kermit is obsolete.
Maybe it's just us... ;^)
Kermit is continually improving and is very nearly as fast as ZMODEM.
Maybe I have a slow version, but I have NEVER gotten comparable results 'tween kermit and zmodem, or even ymodem. Usually it's a 2:1 difference.
It is available for nearly all platforms, is free, and source is availilbe. It includes NASI support directly. It has a very nice (powerful) scripting language. It also works over TCP/IP networks for folks with the luck to be Ethernet'd into the Internet (like most of the faculty and staff here at GMU). It also has very strong backward compatibility.
This is worth considering...
I expect that Kermit is good enuff if you are interested in commandline scripts for plain old DOS. And the scripting language is also supported by the C version that run on nearly all Unixs and most other boxes. This would allow a single script to support a lot of users. I'm not interestedin DOS and command lines, but if some other cypherpunk wants to try, I'm sure not going to complain.
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