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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: lots of XENIX files to Windoze
Date: 15 Dec 2001 14:45:55 -0500
References: <20011215000548.GI24776@jpradley.jpr.com>
<GoD17G.18Mz@wjv.com> 

In article <GoD17G.18Mz@wjv.com>, Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> wrote:
: In article <20011215000548.GI24776@jpradley.jpr.com>,
: Jean-Pierre Radley  <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
: >Gale Gorman propounded (on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:28:54PM +0000):
: >| That may be my simplest solution.  May take awhile to transfer 200Mb.
: 
: >Gale, I for one cannot guess the antecedent of "That".  What are you
: >talking about?
: 
: Since the xenitec mail posting break the pointer links in my readers
: I don't know even know what article yours references, let along
: finding the links to the first. However regarding the comment
: that transfering 200Mb may take a long time, I've used kermit for
: salvaging a system that was barely stable enough to keep itself up
: and running - and even though the transfer took the better part of a
: weekend it was totally hands off.
: 
And not necessarily slow, within the limits of the processor and serial
port or network speed.  I assume we're talking about Xenix?  If it's
Xenix 2.3.4, there is -- would you believe -- a brand-new release of
C-Kermit for it (as there is is for SCO UNIX 3.2v4.2, OSR5, Unixware,
and Open Unix 8).  It's not fully packaged yet, but the software itself
is ready:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#sco

Incidentally, scenarios like this one where interruption is a possibility,
Kermit can recover gracefully if you have real and relatively up-to-date
Kermit versions on both ends, which means you'll need Kermit 95 for the
Windows end:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

Then you can resume interrupted transfers from the point of failure.
This applies to the entire file group as well as to an individual file
(with some caveats).

- Frank
 

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