jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) (03/25/89)
I sent this out over two weeks ago, but any attempts to answer it were soundly rebuffed by a heartless bug. Our mail environment died a horrible death over two weeks ago, so I am re-posting this to recoup those answers which were either sent back, or just fell into the well. (Can you imagine an Army agency with no mail feed for over two weeks? I have in excess of 500 msgs in my mailbox today!!) Sooooo, here we go again........... - - - - - - - - - S A M E O L D S T U F F - - - - - - - - - - - Hi again. Here is the next wave of inane questions. I have been using VT100 (Ver 2.6) for a little while and I am ready to develop some custom scripts and INIT files, but first I need a little additional information. 1. If I understand the documentation correctly the BUFFER parm does nothing to the send or receive packet length. How can I change those via a parm? I have different needs depending upon which host I am accessing. In each case I am using Kermit. The version on my host environment recognizes the extended packet function and will allow me to specify a packet up to 1KB. (Almost anything would be better that the default of 90(?)). 2. Because of the currently slow transfer time with the default short packet I would like to put VT100 in the background and do other things. When I click the front to back gadget I get no response. I am usually running from the CLI or Shell. Is the failure of front-to-back strictly because of where I am running? If so, will running VT100 from an icon clear that problem? If not, I would appreciate a work-around that will let me start a lengthly transfer and put it in the background. NOTE - Since the original posting I have run from an icon with no noticable difference in the way VT100 responds. 3. The documentation does not address the file transfer requestor that is used to indicate the file and the in-flight statistics. The DONE gadget that is displayed causes me a little confusion. If I click on it the requestor goes away, but I sometimes end up sending a garbage character or two to the host. If I click outside the requstor the requestor will go away and no spurious garbage is generated. Does VT100 have some hard and fast rule here? It seems to me that VT100 has been well thought out and a very reasonable implementation. My kudos to all involved here. Also a hearty THANK YOU to those who can contribute to the demise of my ignorance in yet another subject area. (This is an amazing world - - The more I know, the more I know I don't know!) Regards, Jerry