larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland) (10/17/86)
HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!
I have kermit running on our 3b2's but it is using a modified form of the
dial routine supplied with kermit. Unfortunately, this version of dial
does not work with uugetty and/or uucp and/or cu in a correct fashion. As
a result, to use ckermit to dial out you must first disable the uugetty on
the line and then persuade everyone not to use cu while you are calling out.
Normally, this has not been a problem since kermit is usually used here by
people that dial into our computers as a transfer protocol. However, I have
a couple of people who want to download programs/data files of theirs from
an IBM mainframe (4361, or 3088, or something like that) and its only way
of protocol transfer is kermit (noone on the IBM system likes to talk about
kermit, though).
I tried using the dial(3) code supplied with our system, but the dial code
is for the old version of uucp, while SysV.2 is supplied with the HDB uucp.
As a result they are incompatible! The dial routine looks for an L-sys file
instead of Systems and does not understand uugetty!
Does anyone have either: (a) a version of kermit working correctly on the
3b2 (including uugetty stuff) or (b) a dial routine that will correctly
handle the HDB uucp and uugetty? If so, could you mail it to me, put it on
a disk (I supply and postage as well), or tell me where to get a hold of it?
I would seriously appreciate this.
Thanks,
-----Larry
-----Lawrence F. Strickland (larry@jc3b21) ---------------------------
Dept. of Engineering Technology + Cthulhu +
St. Petersburg Jr. College + R`lyeh +
P.O. Box 13489 + wgah`nagl +
St. Petersburg, FL 33733 + fh`tagn +
Phone: +1 813 341 4705 ---------------------------
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