Re: Kermit, BBS UNIVERSALITY
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Tue Oct 12 2004 11:38 am

 > Oct 12 02:57 04, Rob Swindell wrote to Maurice Kinal:
 > 
 >  RS> And what does this have to do with Kermit?
 > 
 > A follow up just for the DOS guy;
 > 
 > Apparently SBBS and BBBS can't properly handle the kermit protocol.  I think
 > that is his major gripe with those BBS packages.

And it's a flawed gripe. Synchronet uses external transfer protocol drivers
(e.g. sz, rz, gkermit, fdsz, etc.), so as long as such transfer protocol
drivers are correctly configured, it can handle *any* transfer protocol
(including kermit).

 > My major gripe with ALL BBS packages, especially so-called Linux ones, is th
 > are too DOS-think for my liking.  In the case of SBBS it does too much and d
 > it wrong.  I have a working tosser, "frontend" and all the
protocols at my
 > disposal that are compatible with most users software, minus zmodem which I
 > could care less about seeing no user cares abot it either, so adding an
 > overbloated BBS package, especially one that gets everything wrong, would be
 > silly.
 > 
 > Don't you agree?

With what?

 > Oh yeah!  You're a Windows user.  You want and need broken
 > bloat.  Sorry about that chief.

Actually, I use (and develop for) both. Please refrain from making assumptions
about my computer useage, chief.

You come across as a very negative person. Do you actually contribute anything
of value?

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