Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by fcambus » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH
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Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by jmclnx » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

Interesting, I used kermet on Coherent to dial into work. Once I started it, work would call be back so I would not have to pay for the session on my phone bill.

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by mikecoles » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:14 PM UTC

The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by jerf » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:16 PM UTC

Hello! Thank you for starting me up! I'm the Kermit protocol and I'm happy to hel... wait, you want to transfer what file? What the hell is a gigabyte? Well, man, OK, you're the user so you know best, but man, this is going to take like, days man, settle in, here we gooo

ooooooo whooooooo OOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!1!! qcjqrjrcorRC!!!

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? Did I just do megabytes per second? Holy shit. Am I high or something? What is this hardware? What is going on here?

No... wait... is that the end? Am I done here? No! No, I want to transfer more! More! Megabytes per second! Gigabytes per second! I can see it now, I want it, I want more, please, let's transfer another file, come on man, I want to ride again, please ple

    EXECUTION COMPLETED
    $

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by marcodiego » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

Project for the future: write an Arduino sketch which will send its own (compressed) source code using one of these protocols over the serial interface.

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by rikthevik » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:23 PM UTC

mikecoles wrote: post #3

The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use. https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...

Yeah, Terminate was a big step up from Telix. Wow that takes me back.

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by mikecoles » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

mikecoles wrote: post #3

The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use. https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...

Checking up on other old favorites such as BitchX/irssi and slrn, I found they're still being developed:

slrn --- NNTP/spool-based Usenet newsreader last updated: 2023-03-18T04:31:51 [UTC] repository: git://git.jedsoft.org/git/slrn.git tarfile: slrn-pre1.0.4-9.tar.gz ( size: 1563860 bytes; md5: f193d983e104a82ef4fd70b1037f8b60 ) github: https://github.com/jedsoft/slrn

https://github.com/BitchX/BitchX1.3

https://irssi.org/2023/03/31/irssi-1.4.4-released/

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by johnturek » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

mikecoles wrote: post #3

The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use. https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...

Wow. I miss those days. Back when life was simple. I really wish my kids could experience working with TSR dos programs, and being intentional of what you are trying to do with a computer. Every k mattered back then.

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by sedatk » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:28 PM UTC

mikecoles wrote: post #3

The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use. https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...

I even remember its creator’s name: Bo Bendsten. I hope he’s doing okay.

Re: Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

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Post by glonq » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

Last year we implemented "ymodem over BLE" for reasons that are complicated and possibly stupid.

It felt familiar but strange and wrong to do such a thing. Worked great though.