11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
12:22 p.m.
On 11/04/2011 19:25, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 4/11/11 2:14 PM, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
Absolutely. Kermit has a particularly accurate VT100 emulation, and
it's surprising how much modern equipment actually needs that. Also,
it's particularly good at squirting data, or sucking down what the other
end is doing. "show tech all" on some of our switches screws quite a
lot of other comms software.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
What, copying files off of obsolete machines?
That's not what I was
talking about. How about a more modern application?
Talking to console ports, for one. Anyone who does any sort of real
networking work has to do that all the time. Ditto for nearly any
embedded systems work. These aren't exactly shrinking fields.