Date   : Wed, 23 Nov 1983 00:08:47 EST
From   : Keith Petersen <w8sdz@brl>
Subject: Re: KERMIT and your local TAC

Kermit works fine through a TAC if you change the TAC intercept
character to something that Kermit will not be sending.  I use
control-E.  That's done by telling the TAC:
   @i 5
no changes are required to Kermit when this is done.  Of course
only text files (not binary) can be transmitted because the
mainframe Kermit doesn't know how to tell the TAC to switch
to binary mode yet.

I've been using Kermit to upload VERY large text files using
wild cards (i.e.: Kermit send *.*) and it works very well at
1200 baud.  I uploaded the whole MDM714 package over the weekend
that way.  Kermit works when MODEM or umodem fail due to system
load.  My last upload was 140k of files while there were 25 users
on BRL!
--Keith