Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <200010091414.e99EERr16075@laxmls02.socal.rr.com> X-Sender: cloder@pop-server.socal.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:17:07 -0700 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chad Loder Subject: Re: Building C-Kermit (6.0.192) with Cygwin 1.1 In-Reply-To: <000801c03159$9bfeeec0$92d698d1@shellware.com> References: <20001005141101.C20946@cygnus.com> <0s635gtMCtrU092yn@cinenet.net> <8096-Sun08Oct2000100240+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <6wK45gtMCNwB092yn@cinenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kermit isn't even a file transfer protocol any more. It's more like a shell. You can move remote files, delete remote files, etc. It's like FTP, only slower. ;) c At 02:57 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, you wrote: >What ever happened to Zmodem? Didn't gsz provide a gnu port? > >Shell > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jeff" >Newsgroups: lists.cygwin >To: >Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:17 PM >Subject: Re: Building C-Kermit (6.0.192) with Cygwin 1.1 > > >> As seen from lists.cygwin, on >> Sun, 8 Oct 2000 10:02:40 +0100, >> David Starks-Browning wrote: >> >> >Kermit ... now there's a blast from the past! >> >> Not from *my* past! :) The current enhanced kermit protocol, when >> tuned for speed, is as fast as your serial connection, and is robust >> enough to get files though bad connections when other modem protocols >> give up and die. Kermit software is well written, thoroughly tested, >> and totally supported by the developers. As long as it stays that way, >> I'll keep using it. :) >> >> >On Saturday 7 Oct 00, Jeff writes: >> >> So, I'm back to my original question: Which of the makefile targets >> >> work best? When presented with a package that has very system-specific >> >> targets, which is best? Which flavor of Unix does Cygwin most >> >> resemble? Linux? FreeBSD? Or maybe a more general target, if >> >> available, such as BSD or System5R4? Or-? C-Kermit has never failed >> >> to build and run "straight out of the box" when it was obvious which >> >> makefile target to use. >> > >> >Jeff, I think your best bet is to get the Kermit folks to figure this >> >out. >> >> A very good suggestion-- I have already posted in >> comp.protocols.kermit.misc, where I am hoping the developers may >> respond sometime this week. >> >> > Aside from that, you'll just have to experiment and deal with >> >the differences yourself. >> >> I've tried some experimentation but, with my limited knowledge, this >package >> is far too complex for me to be able to figure out what to do. As >> usual, I first searched the net before posting. I tried deja.com, the >> archives for this list, the Cygwin website, and a general web search. >> The last turned up a mailing list post where the author described how, >> after switching to UWIN, he was able to build Kermit "straight out of >> the box" with a slight mod to the linux target 9his makefile entry >> fails on Cygwin, however). Nothing else turned up. >> >> > Unless someone has solved this very problem >> >already on this list (unlikely since nobody has confessed as much), >> >nobody is going to go to this trouble for you. >> >> I wouldn't expect anyone on this list to work out the particuars for >> me if they weren't planning to build Kermit for themselves also. I >> also expect that I will want to build other packages with Cygwin that >> may require selecting makefile targets for specific systems. That is >> why I asked the above question in more general terms. I would *still* >> like to know which flavor of Unix Cygwin is based on, most closely >> resembles, etc.! >> >> Jeff >> >> >> -- >> Want to unsubscribe from this list? >> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com >> > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com