Steve_Graham@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU (06/10/91)
For all of you waiting with baited breath to hear if I got QTERM running on my Kaypro II, the answer is, sort of. At 2400 baud characters are dropped. This also happens with several other terminal programs (MEX, KERMIT, and a vt100 emulator that I'm using at the moment), most notably in the third column. There is one program, FASTTERM, that avoids this problem on this machine at that speed, so it seems to be possible. If I turn on the "junk character trap" about half or more of the incoming characters are missing. vt100 emulation does not work at all. All I get is a row of +++++ with some incoming characters let through at random. If you have any suggestions about this I'd love to hear, because the vt100 ability is one of the things that most strongly attracted me to QTERM in the first place. I used the QT-KPRO patch to set this up, by the way. So far I haven't had time to look over the docs thoroughly. I did note a scrambled line in QTERM.DOC. Near the bottom of the first page of printed output are a couple of lines as follows: "? -Print help - QTERM provides a brief synopsis of the available commands. a 3/10th second break. , - Hang up modem - " (etc.) Is this a typo, or have I yet again got a corrupted file (in which case all bets are off anyway)? One other thing: I have retrieved and downloaded the files twice from Simtel. Using EXL to unpack them, there's a junk trailing character on the end of the patch filenames, so QT-KPRO.Z becomes QT-KPRO.Z ' (except that the ' is the other way around--I don't know how to produce that character). Is this normal? I've been having trouble ftp-ing files from Simtel. The trend is that they start sending ok, then slow down after about 30k has been sent, get slower, slower, and finally timeout, sometimes after about an hour. Anyone else having trouble, or should I look to the local system? --Steve Graham (sg2@ub.cc.umich.edu)