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by dublin 1150 days ago
While it's nice to use a version of Kermit or Zmodem that has SSH built into it, it's not necessary. The plain vanilla versions from decades ago will work just fine in any terminal connection you establish: Telnet, SSH, rsh, whatever - even 7-bit ASCII...

I used this frequently to move files back in the dialup modem days, after doing an ugly redirect to get the Zmodem binary on the far end, and because of its superior compression, Zmodem was faster than uucp/uucico (when you were lucky enough to have the uucp suite installed and configured, which unlike Kermit and Zmodem, required root privileges...)