ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP (11/23/83)
I was exchanging messages with a NetLandian the other night, and he mentioned not being able to get KERMIT running. He also mentioned he was working on the ARPANet through a TAC, and I fired off my TAC patch to KERMIT. Suddenly realized others out there might have the same problem. If you're working through a TAC, and KERMIT absolutely totally refuses to make the first connection, even in the simple CONNECT mode, message me. The problem is in the TAC's interrupt character (I think that's the term -- on my TAC, it's the @ sign -- you have to send 2 to get the TAC to send on a single one to the host, else the TAC thinks you're talking to it, and all KERMIT's commands and stuff make no sense at all to it! I have a real simple patch for the .ASM source to KERMIT (only about 3 instructions and one address!), and will message to you singly, or to the net in general if enough queries come in. Yes, I will be contacting the COLUMBIA people, but want to make my Morrow Decision I and Freedom 100 IF-ENDs to KERMIT (well, actually CPMBASE.M80) first to give them one complete FTPable package. If you have a Decision I or a Freedom 100, of course I'll be glad to get the appropriate changes to you as well. David Kirschbaum Toad Hall
w8sdz%brl@sri-unix.UUCP (11/29/83)
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@brl> 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