ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) (01/27/85)
I see on fa.info-mac that there is a new Mckermit, could someone with access
to it post it to mac sources? I have the version from early December posted
by Jim Budler, and have been unable to get it to work. Failing anything
else, does anyone have any advice in running this one? Connect mode seems
to work sometimes, but send and receive just seem to lock up the machine
(reboot is only cure I have found). Sometimes going to the settings menu
locks it too. I find that when I haven't put kermit on a boot disk, after
all the swaps it takes to start it up, the wrong (boot) disk is left
in the drive (assuming my files are on the kermit disk). Any suggestions?
Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------furuta@uw-beaver (Richard Furuta) (01/31/85)
The MacKermit posted to the Arpanet was *not* a new version. I thought so at first but examination of the sources showed it was the same version 1.1 that came out a couple of months ago. The main trick to using version 1.1 is to know that Kermit *thinks* it knows what speed you are running at but it really doesn't. In fact, it seems to forget where it was set. The key to using it is to select the configuration menu, wait until the disk stops spinning, click down and release on the 1200 button (assuming you want to run at 1200), make sure that the disk spins again and then exit. If the disk spins again, this means that MacKermit is reinitializing its idea of how fast the line is and that things will go well from then on. --Rick