Subject: Re: Adding gkermit
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/30/2006 10:08:22
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I have lost track of the number of times I have had to uuencode G-Kermit
> or minirz, split it into a million little pieces, and laboriously re-upload
> each one with cu(1) until the whole thing _finally_ transferred right.
> It would be very helpful to already have this program present in /rescue
> for many difficult recovery situations on embedded systems.
Having been in a similar situation using cut&pasted uuencoded files to
get code onto a small embedded device with no network interface, I can
wholeheartedly agree with this.
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