SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (11/28/87)
Your most recent try at uploading an EXEUCTIONER 4byte version of Kermit 3.80 to APPLE2-L worked. I'm using the program on our IBM 3090 running VM/CMS. I've got a //c but the Mouse feature doesn't work at all. The EMACS editor functions are, naturally, a mystery to IBM's System Editor Product (XEDIT). When I try and drag the cursor around, all I manage to get is ESC,0 (which has the effect of pressing program function key 10 - PF10; not very useful and potentially harmful). One other strange effect. The QUIT function doesn't want to work properly. Instead of dropping into BASIC, in ProDOS it jumps into the QUIT code and in DOS 3.3 it crashes into the monitor (3D0G seems to work okay in DOS 3.3, but I can't set the default PREFIX in ProDOS - the thing boots with the PREFIX blank and hence won't read the KERMIT.INIT file) The use of inverse video to display IBM's alternate cursor intensity is ok. It even works most, but not all of the time (with SOFTERM 2 it works all of the time, so the fault has to be in the Kermit). It's also nice to have the added option of setting the cursor keys in VT100 so that the //c (or //e, or IIgs) cursor arrows move the cursor without having to hold an APPLE key down. Sadly access to control-H, control-K, control-U, and control-J seem to have disappeared (OPEN APPLE down arrow moves the cursor down instead of sending control-J which our system uses as the new line function). Somewhere there's a small problem that defeats our mainframe communications processor's "type ahead" function. If I try and type while the screen is "painting," the program "locks up" and I have to send a "reset" to the mainframe to clear it up (which resends the whole screen making it a nuisance). This is the first terminal emulation I've used that causes this particular effect. On the whole, this is a fairly nice Kermit which still needs a few little fixes. Thanks for sending the IIgs smartport driver, I can't use it, but I may well pass the program to someone who needs it. --------------------- ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut