JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (04/20/88)
Help!! I have been going crazy trying to setup Kermit 3.82 so that I
can easily run it from PROSEL. I already had Kermit 3.78 running in
this manner but life seems to be much more difficult in the newer
versions of Kermit. I do recall reading that Ted Medin had made some
changes related to the "prefix" in Kermit and I suppose that these
changes could be the cause of my problems. Maybe someone can offer a
better solution (mousetrap?) than the klude that I finally adopted.
My disk is setup as follows (for simplicity, some files have been
omitted):
/MYVOL/
PRODOS
PROSEL.SYSTEM
PROSEL
BASIC.SYSTEM
/KERMIT/
KERMIT.INIT
KERMIT.MODEM
KERMIT (Kermit 3.78)
/KERMIT.3.82/
KERMIT.MODEM
KERMIT382 (Kermit 3.82)
KERMIT.INIT
RUN.KERMIT (BASIC program)
With the PROSEL editor, I specified the following information for
Kermit 3.78 (which works fine):
Prefix: ?
Pathname: ]
Startup: KERMIT/KERMIT
Both the KERMIT.INIT and the KERMIT.MODEM files can be read by
Kermit. Moreover, if you issue the SHOW PREFIX command, Kermit 3.78
responds with /MYVOL/KERMIT/. So the logical setup for Kermit 3.82
would seem to be:
Prefix: ?
Pathname: ]
Startup: KERMIT.3.82/KERMIT382
This executes version 3.82, but Kermit reports an error when it
attempts to read the KERMIT.INIT file. If you issue the SHOW PREFIX
command, Kermit responds with only /MYVOL/.
After trying everything I could think of to run Kermit directly, I
finally resorted to writing a 2 line BASIC program:
10 PRINT CHR$(4) "PREFIX KERMIT.3.82"
20 PRINT CHR$(4) "BRUN KERMIT382"
I saved this program as RUN.KERMIT in the /KERMIT.3.82/ subdirectory
and changed the PROSEL information to be:
Prefix: ?
Pathname: ]
Startup: KERMIT.3.82/RUN.KERMIT
Now Kermit 3.82 works fine, but I will have to edit the BASIC program
each time I install a new version of Kermit. Does anyone have a
explanation of why the two different versions of Kermit behave
differently?
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J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181
BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (04/21/88)
Joe (craparotta%kyoa.DEC@decwrl.dec.com) suggested a technique which provided me with the result that I was looking for. His suggestion was to BRUN KERMIT382, then issue the Kermit command SET PREFIX /MYVOL/KERMIT.3.82. Next issue the Kermit command EXIT to get back to the APPLESOFT prompt and then do a BSAVE KERMIT382,A$1000,L$6F00. I tried this and it works great! Now each time I execute Kermit, the prefix is set to point to the subdirectory that contains the KERMIT.INIT and KERMIT.MODEM files. Ted Medin was also kind enough to respond. He suggested that I move the KERMIT.INIT and KERMIT.MODEM files to the root directory. This would also have worked, but I prefer the other solution. I thank both gentlemen for their prompt and helpful responses. ------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892