[comp.sys.apple] Dead Kermit 3.79

SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (12/02/87)

Aha!  That problem sounds familiar.  If Kermit 3.xx has the SSC
driver installed, INTERRUPTS MUST BE ENABLED (SW2-6=ON on a
SuperSerial Card).  If interrupts aren't enabled, the program
will send but not receive (appears to be quite dead when CONNECTED).

If you don't have a real SSC (or you have a clone that doesn't
support interrupts) or, for other reasons, you don't want interrupts
enabled, run the INSTALL program and select the Microtek 622C
driver (works with a SSC card too but expects interrupts disabled).

If the Microtek driver is installed, then you'll lose a character
or two at the beginnings of lines at 1200 baud or faster.  I've used
Kermit 3.79 in this mode as a VT100 and the way our mainframe's
emulator addresses the screen all that disappears are a couple of
characters in the top left corner (the program is quite servicable).
I understand that at least some VAX's have a "null characters" option
that will throw a few pad (nulls) characters on the end of each line
so that what disappears are the nulls which are superfluous anyway
(nulls = 4 ought to do fine at 1200).

When all else fails, read the documenation! (also available from
KERMSRV@CUVMA).

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