kermit is great for college dialup, and very little
else
I use Kermit all the time, for one very good reason. It's available for
just about _anything_. It's even in the ROM of my calculator. I have
versions for the Acorn Cambridge, FTS Model 88, HP110, and for many other
long-forgotten machines.
Sure there are probably better solutions for transfering between PCs, but
when you have some obscure machine....
-tony