DYOUNG@USC-ISID.ARPA (C. David Young) (03/26/86)
For anyone interested in the ACTION! Kermit that resides in the archives:
1) Although it does not appear to support 8th bit quoting, I have been
able to transfer binary files by adjusting the TAC with the following:
@i 6 (change the intercept char from "@" to ctrl-f)
@b o s (put the TAC in binary output mode)
@b i s (put the TAC in binary input mode)
In addition, the Kermit on our TOPS-20 had to be told to store the
incoming file as 8 bit bytes instead of 7:
KERMIT-20>SET FILE 8
One other thing you might want to do is set the packet size to 60 so
as not to overrun the TAC which ignores flow control when it is in
binary mode. I do not do this however, and have had no trouble.
2) You can save the compiled Kermit program to disk and run it as a
binary load file from DOS but there is a trick. The DUP.SYS usually
wipes out the rs232 handler so you need to append the Kermit object
file to the AUTORUN.SYS (C, KERMIT,AUTORUN.SYS/A). Of course you may
want to make another copy of your AUTORUN.SYS before doing this so
that you have a virgin RS232 handler. Also, you may want to rename
it to "KERMIT" if you don't want to boot up into Kermit everytime.
3) The next step is to try the home-brew ACTION! runtime package that
recently appeared on the net! I hope to do that soon.
David Young
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