[net.micro.cpm] kermit query

gray%isl@sri-unix.UUCP (04/18/84)

I at last have a generic kermit running on my cromemco boards & Morrow
disks thanks to a proper incorporation of BAT: by MICAH. It works with
the UNIX Kermit on a VAX with one problem--at the end of a file 
transferred from the PC to the VAX there are several lines of
^Z^Z^Z etc. Is this filler poop at the end of packets & can it be turned
off? Thanks for any help.
(Reply to gray@su-dsn)

W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA (04/19/84)

From:  Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA>

The file default for CP/M Kermit is binary.  If you do SET FILE ASCII
to your Kermit-80 prior to doing the upload, you won't get those
control-Z's at the end of the file.
--Keith

kevinw@Su-Dsn.ARPA (04/19/84)

From:  Kevin W. Rudd <kevinw@Su-Dsn.ARPA>

the ^Z it the CPM end of file character for ascii files.
it is always there except when it would be the first character in
a new allocation (either new block or new extent, i don't remember)
kermit apparently does not differentiate between text (with 0x1a marking
end of file) and binary (with no end of file -- only data)
  -- K