17 Apr
2011
17 Apr
'11
10:21 p.m.
On 4/16/2011 6:26 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:19:50PM -0400, William
Donzelli wrote:
I use it to talk to the LOM of my Sun V100 (sitting in the IKEA shelf
behind me, earning its electricity as backup, squid and NTP server).
It is also my first choice if I have to talk via serial port to some
device that speaks a human readable protocol atop serial.
It Just Works (TM).
Kind regards,
Alex.
You're definitely right about the Just Works part. About 15 years ago I
used it to implement a remote code loader over dial-up phone lines -
about 1MB of code per download. Using short packets and the 16 bit CRC
error detection, I've seen it successfully download in the face of an
incredible number of packets in error. It's still in use today AFAIK.
Later,
Charlie C.
This is
sad, though the project is going open source, but it would be
nice to see someone continue the Kermit name. Ed's just the messenger;
don't contact him about Kermit.
To be realistic here - how much does Kermit really matter in today's
IT environment, other that to to people like us?