Need simple file transfer program

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Feb 25 23:04:26 2004

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> Can you use DOS 6.x and INTERSVR? That was *the* way I used to transfer
> files back when I did that sort of thing with DOS and Win 3.1. I
> suspect it's much easier than Kermit, as the client gives you 'network
> drives' from the server's drives.

No. The Bernoulli drivers won't work on any DOS version higher than 3.30.

I just downloaded version 3.16 of Columbia's Kermit. It purports to have
added a /RECURSIVE option to the GET command, which it has, and it claims
to create the necessary directories [on the client side] which it does
not.

It also purported to fix a serious bug with commands over a serial port
not being completed, but I'm still having problems transferring files.
Lots of stalling.

It's funny how the Columbia folks put up a big FAQ trying to dispel
various rumors about how Kermit is slow and inefficient and how Kermit is
superior to everything because it will work under pretty much any
condition (line noise, funky hardware, etc.) "out of the box" and ... it
doesn't. Foo.

Lamoids.

Unless there's a Kermit expert out there who can tell me what I'm doing
wrong, I'm writing Kermit off (and those foolios at Columbia...dorks).

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