dennis@tifsie.UUCP (Dennis Draheim) (01/15/89)
in article <8901132130.aa01425@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET says: > TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARRA commented that he had no trouble with the EZ Install > even though he downloaded Kermit under prodos. The key was that he used > Copy II+ to move it to DOS 3.3. CONVERT quite commonly messes up on text > files as big as those in Kermit. What's more, the VIEW option under Copy > II+ actually lets you read the EZ Install directions ! (they are at the > beginning of KER384.1). Thanks, everyone, for posting these solutions. I had been going crazy trying to unpack Kermit 3.85 for a week until I found out that the conversion utils didn't change the hi bit between ProDOS and DOS3.3. I now have Kermit working under DOS on my //c. Just one problem, though. I'd like it under ProDOS, but when I try to use the //c System Utilities (which I believe is the equivalent of CONVERT on a //e) to copy the file KERMIT385 from DOS to ProDOS, it garbages my screen and dumps me into the monitor halfway through the copy. Has anyone else seen this, and is there a way to fix the problem (preferably w/o spending much $$)? I don't have Copy II+, obviously. Second: I recently got Z-link from LISTSERV. It came as 2 EXECUTIONER files, which I successfully EXEC'ed under ProDOS to create a file Z.LINK.BNY, 93 blocks, loads at A$2000, and a second file Z.LINK.BN1, which I believe was a temp file and is no longer needed. When I try to BRUN Z.LINK.BNY, though, I get a NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE error, which I read somewhere means that it would overwrite part of ProDOS if I loaded the file. Anyone know how to get past this? There was no documentation with Z-link. Thanks a bunch, Dennis -- Dennis Draheim Internet: ddraheim@pacvax.csc.ti.com Texas Instruments dennis@tifsie.csc.ti.com P.O. Box 655012, M/S 3635 UUCP: im4u!ti-csl!pacvax!ddraheim Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214)-995-6747
ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET (01/17/89)
This is mainly to Dennis Draheim, wjho is trying to brun Z.Link.Bny. First you have to unpack the composite .bny file with BLU. It contains "squeezed" files, so if you don't have BLU, you need Librarian and USQ3. On moving Kermit to ProDOS, you really shouldn't have a problem, since it is a bin file, which the system.utility should be able to handle. Failing that, you really do need a few utilities! Especially Copy II+ and BLU.