From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) Subject: Re: Simple Q's on SLIP, DIP and a bad trip. Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 19:14:05 GMT
Charles Hedrick (hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu) wrote:
:
: SLIP is real TCP/IP. In principle you can do anything you could do on
: an Ethernet. However performance at dialup speeds may not be good
: enough for some applications to be usable. I don't know enough about
: netrek to know whether it's practical at 9600 bps or not.
:
: The primary advantages over kermit are (1) the ability to do a wider
: variety of things -- not just logging in and doing file transfer, but
: things like X. (2) the ability to have more than one session open at a
: time. I often need to use several different machines. I have a
: window open on each one. That's not possible in Kermit, though there
: are ways other than TCP/IP to do it (e.g. term).
C-Kermit supports TCP/IP. I use it to login over a network and then
use ftp from inside kermit for file transfer, since it's faster than
kermit's method. I don't think I've tried concurrent kermit sessions, but
it seems it should work.