• almost 4got 1

    From Manley Hubbell@1:105/55 to Steven Horn on Friday, August 30, 2002 16:25:23
    No HD at all? Do you guys really like wearing hairshirts?
    wELL? you lost me with one line.. My guess? Yeah? however I dont know
    I do Wear Wool in the Winter? Now bak to the prior Question ------------------------------------------------------------
    I use a COM program called Telix [ a Canadian product ]
    it does have Kermit listed in on of the many screens
    Just a second i'll look for that now? ===============================================Which protocol?
    ASCII
    Kermit
    Zmodem
    :::::::::::: So TELIX lists Kermit as a Protocol
    used for the transfer of information? I mostly use [Line 9] ASCII
    and Line 11 [ Zmodem ] and seldom {probably never} use[ed] Kermit
    this does not mean i dislike it. it just something i have not used ???????????????????????????????????????????????? searching in DEPTH
    | 1 dup \ DOE <doe?> |winDo
    | 2 pup \ DEQ |netsc
    | 3 tcp \ FCC DOI |Trump
    | 4\ ggp \ AFT |Slip ?/? probably level 3 stuff "tcp"
    //tilt\\
    ggp 3 GGP # gateway-gateway protocol
    tcp 6 TCP # transmission control protocol
    pup 12 PUP # PARC universal packet protocol
    ___Line 25 2:18 P.M. PST No I do NOT know.

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  • From MICHEL SAMSON@1:10/345 to MANLEY HUBBELL on Saturday, August 31, 2002 04:29:00
    Hi Manley,

    About "almost 4got 1" of August 30:

    ...IBM [5150]... ...360 5.25 floppy disks... ...DOS and a BBS to
    answer incoming calls... ...com program... ...LYNX connection...
    ...one doesn't need to rely on other external ressources like a
    FreeNet... ...a two decades old 8088 4,77 Mhz 512 Kb ~RAM~ PC can
    connect with a ~PPP~ DialUp ~ISP~ and allow for ~TelNet~/~FTP~...
    ...the user-side of the equation would require that little if only
    the `Kermit' file transfer protocol were more popular...
    ...
    I use a COM program... ...it does have Kermit... ...seldom
    {probably never} use[ed] Kermit, this does not mean i dislike it.

    This is one genuine example why `Kermit' never became popular. :-7

    What BBSers get from their BBS SysOp is most likely to be a pre-'85 archaic sub-standard implementation of the current `Kermit' protocol (it
    is often what they'll get from their respective BBS authors themselves).
    Even if BBSers had the latest official `MS-Kermit' release at hand, they
    would learn that the `Kermit' protocol is backward-compatible all right;
    only, being made that crippled simply renders the protocol unfit and i'm
    afraid you get just that on the average ~TelNettable~ BBSes. You should
    know that `Kermit' is blasphemy to most SysOps: when i offered help for
    those of the `Win 95' echo (so that we discuss how to install it for use
    over `COM/IP') not one single person took advantage of that opportunity,
    i was welcomed with `Kermit'-bashing and soon became a target myself. I
    was supposed to go away after some tried to impress me with decades long experience (i was told about `Kermit' run on 8-Bit computers (Z80, 6809,
    etc.), euh... but the old days are gone, i argued that ~FOSSIL~ support
    wasn't added before 1995 - meaning more flawed 3rd-party implementations
    had to be used prior to that date if the serial-port wasn't ~FOSSIL~ but
    nobody listened, the outcome was already set. Don't dare ask a SysOp if
    he would be of any help about `Kermit': if one needs to evaluate it, my suggestion is look outside of the BBS world (bias is too bad otherwise)!

    In any case, `Telix' thru a FreeNet (or equivalent), or a `BBBS' or `WildCat! v5.5x' ~TelNet~ BBS are more examples why it's no surprize you
    never ever felt a need for `Kermit' before. I prefer the real thing!...

    Salutations,

    Michel Samson
    www3.sympatico.ca/bicephale
    a/s Bicephale


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  • From Steven Horn@1:17/67 to Manley Hubbell on Tuesday, September 03, 2002 00:53:50
    Manley Hubbell (1:105/55) wrote to Steven Horn at 15:25 on 30 Aug 2002:

    ------------------------------------------------------------ I use
    a COM program called Telix [ a Canadian product ]

    Telix has not been Canadian for some time.

    it does have Kermit listed in on of the many screens
    Just a second i'll look for that now? ===============================================Which protocol?
    ASCII
    Kermit
    Zmodem
    :::::::::::: So TELIX lists Kermit as a Protocol
    used for the transfer of information? I mostly use [Line 9] ASCII
    and Line 11 [ Zmodem ] and seldom {probably never} use[ed] Kermit
    this does not mean i dislike it. it just something i have not used

    I don't know how good the Kermit in Telix is. However, I have to agree with Michel Samson that the Kermit protocols built into BBSes is not likely to be very good at all.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????? searching in DEPTH
    | 1 dup \ DOE <doe?> |winDo
    | 2 pup \ DEQ |netsc
    | 3 tcp \ FCC DOI |Trump
    | 4\ ggp \ AFT |Slip ?/? probably level 3 stuff
    "tcp" //tilt\\
    ggp 3 GGP # gateway-gateway protocol
    tcp 6 TCP # transmission control protocol
    pup 12 PUP # PARC universal packet protocol

    Now you have me. I use the stuff built into Windows 2000 to connect to the Internet and the last time I thought much about what you've set out above was when I was using Trumpet Winsock seven years ago.

    Take care,

    Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.ca)
    Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
    --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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  • From Manley Hubbell@1:105/55 to Steven Horn on Wednesday, September 04, 2002 21:46:11
    Now you have me. I use the stuff built into Windows 2000
    ? yeah? its pretty deep by now? difficult to know just what
    happens or where. Still i search about for the leastt bytes overall

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  • From Steven Horn@1:17/67 to Manley Hubbell on Thursday, September 05, 2002 22:33:18
    Manley Hubbell (1:105/55) wrote to Steven Horn at 20:46 on 04 Sep 2002:

    ? yeah? its pretty deep by now? difficult to know just what happens or where. Still i search about for the least bytes overall

    Do I really have to know what happens or where when I can connect to a network or to the Internet time and time again without a glitch? As it happens, I have
    a reasonable idea of what part of my system does what but discussing that is off-topic here.

    Having said that, I do understand that with your system, you would search for the least bytes overall if you did not want to upgrade.

    Take care,

    Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.ca)
    Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
    --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: northof60.tzo.com, Whitehorse, YT, Canada (1:17/67)