BT005395@VM1.NODAK.EDU (KEITH SKAR) (04/06/89)
Dealing with the Proterm kermit prob that everybody has been talking about. I have used ProTERM 2.1 Kermit protocol to download a variety of files including Binscii, and i have never had a prob. Ok thats my two cents worth. Now to my question, I cant seem to get a working copy of Executioner. I have downloaded it using both Kermit 384 and Proterm Kermit. But when i go to exec it. It crashed into the monitor. Am i doing something wrong. Thanks. Acknowledge-To: <BT005395@NDSUVM1>
KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") (04/07/89)
I have said this before, but I've never seen it on the net, so here goes... Items in Executioner format have at the end of th listing a line of code, a blank line, the save command and a $f00 or some such go. That blank line must be BLANK!. No spaces, nothing, just a carriage return. This apparently tell the decode routine to stop decoding. If there is anything in that line, the program will save the wrong file type, or crash into the monitor, or on ocassion, work right. (Weird, huh?) Anyway, if tha l9ne is blank ( and you may have to edit it) it will work right all the time. I find our VAX will usually stick about 5 spaceds in that blank line, so I routinely edit the file before downloading it to my apple. It took me about three mojnths to figure this out, and then only because I saw a passing reference to the blank line in someone else's comments. Good luck Kurt Miles KMILES@USU (bitnet)