Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production"
> projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up.

:-)

> 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects for
> Linux Journal.

Can you narrow that down any more?  I'd like to go find a copy of it and 
read it.

> UUCP would work a treat for the problem I initially posed.

:-)

> Back in the day, I always used Taylor-UUCP, and I'm pretty sure I could
> get it working again on Linux, but I have little confidence I could
> get it working on Win10.

I'm quite confident that Taylor-UUCP can be made to work on contemporary 
Linux and macOS (Big Sur and it's predecessors) as I've got exactly that 
working.  What's more, I've got it working across SSH as a transport in 
lieu of serial connections.

> I'd probably have better luck with Kermit.

Please elaborate.

I know very little about Kermit.  I've looked at it a number of times 
over the last 20 years, but it's never presented a feature that I 
couldn't do with other things.  I don't know if I'm just too late to the 
Kermit game to properly appreciate it or if I'm completely missing 
something.

My fear is that Kermit would be more manual for transferring files one 
at a time.  Maybe I'm wrong.

Hence, please elaborate about Kermit.  ;-)

> It turns out the initial requirements that I was given were wrong, and
> the Windows machine does have some limited Internet access via a VPN
> and proxy, and I can get files to/from the Windows machine that way.

~chuckle~

That happens.

> So my initial question is moot.

;-)



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