[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Kermit transfers

brandon@tdi2.UUCP (12/29/86)

Quoted from <174200009@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> ["Re: Kermit and Procomm"], by crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu...
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| >
| >	Would someone please explain (in full detail) to me how to get
| >Procomm 2.4 to do Kermit transfers. I can get Xmodem to work fine, I can
| >get Kermit to Kermit to work fine, I just can't get Procomm to Kermit to
| >work...
| 
| It seems that you do not have your parity set the same on both sides, or your
| packet lengths are not the same.  On the Procomm side, I have usually selected
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Nope.  If you check the original sequence of events, he was telling the UNIX
Kermit something like:

Kermit>RE FOOBAR.TXT

I will guarantee you that the UNIX side was responding:

?Too many arguments

or something similar.  The RECEIVE command doesn't want file names, and will
complain if it gets them.

++Brandon
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