From: Tom H. <Tom...@ma...> - 2002-05-31 12:12:00
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Just wondering if anyone has ever considered the marriage of kermit and tramp? The latest kermit supports making just about any kind of connection imaginable (dial-up, telnet, rlogin, ssh) together with just about every kind of security and authorization scheme ever invented, and it can transfer files over whatever connection it has made using the highly robust kermit protocols. Combine that with the fact that kermit has been ported to just about every platform imaginable, and the kermit program supports a fairly uniform set of commands for manipulating files across all those platforms, and it would seem to be the ideal remote server for something like tramp to talk to (rather than a precarious collections of shell scripts, perl scripts, and the like :-). Of course, it only works if kermit lives on both ends of the connection, but it does seem like there could be some advantages (not the least of which is kermit file transfer is a lot lower overhead than base64 encoding :-). Just a thought. -- Tom...@ma... \\\\ Will no one rid me of Concurrent Computers, Ft. Lauderdale, FL \\\\ this troublesome Me: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/ \\\\ autoconf? Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org \\\\ !!!!! |
From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (K. ) - 2002-05-31 13:12:39
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Tom Horsley <Tom...@ma...> writes: > The latest kermit supports making just about any kind of connection > imaginable (dial-up, telnet, rlogin, ssh) together with just about every > kind of security and authorization scheme ever invented, and it can transfer > files over whatever connection it has made using the highly robust kermit > protocols. Yes, I've wanted to combine Tramp with Kermit for quite a while now. But I never got around to it. I've used Kermit before, but it was years ago. So imagine that somebody starts up Kermit to get a shell on the remote end. Then what happens when a file is being transferred? I guess something has to happen on the remote side and something has to happen on the local side. Does one send a kermit command to the remote end, then send an escape char to Kermit, then tell the Kermit to send (receive) the file? Hm. Maybe the current file transfer mechanism needs a little bit of tweaking to allow this. kai -- Silence is foo! |