[comp.sys.apple] kermit bugs

lc@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry Colton) (05/12/88)

All attempts to send mail to medin@nosc.mil have resulted in an
error message from on the nosc systems, so I will post below a
couple of comments on kermit382.  Maybe other user can shed some 
light on the problems.

The first appears to be a bug in the vt100 emulation in the way 
kermit processes TABs.  Specifically, multiple tabs, without
intervening text, will only move the cursor to the first tab stop.
A couple of examples (^I represents a TAB and X a text entry):

0123456789012345678901234567890
^I      X^I     X^I     X       (this works fine)
^I^I^I  X                       (this is how kermit displays)
^I^I^I                  X       (this is the correct display)

The second sounds like it may be fixed in the beta version that Murph
Sewall announced: I would like the EXit command to issue a ProDOS
quit command instead of leaving me in basic.  I select kermit from
Prosel and would like to return there upon leaving kermit.  Being 
basically lazy, I don't want to have to exit with EXit then type BYE.

(Note to Ted Medin: please call back to the North San Diego Apple Club
BBS (619/571-9010).  You have mail waiting for you.  I would like to 
determine why all my uucp mail to you errors when it gets to shark.)

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lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (05/14/88)

interesting note on a problem that I have encountered.  I am still using 
3.81 (sorry murphy - am still trying to coordinate getting the new stuff
down to my machine...sigh).  When I am getting output to the screen and
a ^G (bell) is encountered, I lose data.  Note that I am running a IIgs
at fast speed with interrupts and with the modem buffer on.


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SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (05/15/88)

>interesting note on a problem that I have encountered.  I am still using
>3.81 (sorry murphy - am still trying to coordinate getting the new stuff
>down to my machine...sigh).  When I am getting output to the screen and
>a ^G (bell) is encountered, I lose data.  Note that I am running a IIgs
>at fast speed with interrupts and with the modem buffer on.

Old problem.  The standard GS "bell" causes that problem with all the
versions of Kermit (as far as I know).  Grant Delaney sent several
alternate beeps/buzzes to APPLE2-L some time ago (at least one of which
fixes the problem).  I'm also told it can be eliminated with Visibell
(sorry, I don't own a IIgs, so I'm just relying on <fallible> memory :-).

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