sdy@amon-re.cs.odu.edu (10/22/88)
Now that I have spent the last four hours working on this, I feel that I should at least pass along some of what I encountered. I need kermit... I need at GOOD TERMINAL PROGRAM that will emulate a smart terminal AND also go 2400 baud... and I know that is asking a lot for an atari. Ok, I saved the uudecoder in basic and the binary one. Then I saved the kermitnr because I have a Rverter and that would be the appropriate one. Next, I ran emacs on those files and removem the extra pre and post lines. Then, I trapped the text to my atari using express 850. WRONG! 850 doesn't get the DIAMONDS (the reverse single quote....) and so UUdeCODE.BAS went nuts. I found that error and called the system again... this time I did a XMODEM transfer of the edited files.... now the files had control-m control-j for EOLNs... and that is another problem... so I wrote a simple program to convert those controls into atascii 155.... then I entered UUdeCODE.BAS AGAIN.... to make sure I got the correct file... (ie: text trap vs. xmodem crc transfer) Ok, then I ran that on UUdeCODE.BIN. THAT CAME OUT... or so it appears. THEN I ran that on KERMITNR.UUC and it said that there was a BOGUS LINE.... an error. GREAT-- after hours of work. I tried running the UUdeCODE.BAS on KERMITNR.UUC to see if it was just the UUdeCODE.BIN (YAU.COM) that had the problem. GREAT! the basic program didn't report an error. I tried loading the KERMITNR.COM-- guess what? Yes, I got an error-- 136. I tried appending it to a handler to see if that would make any difference at all..... nope. I tried making it an autoload file because if there is an error 136 they usually load anyway. WRONG, it still gave me an error (this was all MYDOS) so I remembered that my vt100 terminal that I can't use anyway... only RUNS off of DOS 2.5 so I moved the file with the handler in front of it to a dos 2..5 disk. I booted it. At least the screen flashed BLACK before it went to DOS and gave me an error. I don't have an xl or an xe that works anymore so I couldn't try any of my special programs on it to look at it. I am stuck with this piece of trash 800 and about 20 useless files that have something to do with KERMIT65. CAN SOMEONE LEND A HELPING WORD or TWO??? Scott D. Yelich sdy@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]