gjditchfield@violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) (06/23/88)
I'm having horrible trouble trying to do attended downloads using Mac
Kermit 0.9(40) (the version posted to comp.binaries.mac recently). I'd
like your help (or at least your sympathy).
I have a 512ke with an external drive, and am using Finder 6.0 and System 4.2.
My last attempt was made with a boot disk in the internal drive and a disk
with Kermit in the external drive. Communications options were set to 1200
baud, even parity. All other options were set at the default values.
I downloaded one file with file defaults set to "Unattended..." and "Create
new file names...". This download went smoothly.
I then changed the file default to "Attended" (why doesn't the "Create
new file names" sub-option under "Unattended" become disabled when I do
this?) and downloaded a file called "resmenu". A dialog asked whether I
would like to save it as "resmenu", and I clicked "ok". Another dialog
came up and announced that Kermit was receiving "RESMENU" as "[]" (the
quad, or undefined character symbol)! Other than that, the transfer went well.
I then tried to download a file called "layo". Clicking "ok" in the first
dialog resulted in an alert that said "The file is busy". When I tried to
save on the boot disk in the other drive, the same alert came up. I
ejected the Kermit disk and tried to save on a third disk, and got an alert
that said "IO Error -37".
Switching back to "Unattended" fixed the problem.
Glen Ditchfield Office: DC 2517 watmath!violet!gjditchfield
Department of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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