JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET (08/07/87)
>>We run KERMIT in two modes on our VAX. (There are names -- local and >>remote -- for the modes but I can never remember which is which.) >>Anyway, one mode is where you log in to the VAX from a PC and then run >>KERMIT, typically in server mode. This works fine. But when a local >>(dumb terminal, say) VAX user uses KERMIT to connect to a modem line >>and dial out from the VAX, it brings the system to its knees. >NOT true unless the user does not alloc the device: I have found >the alloc faster that selecting the line within Kermit >$ ALLOC TTYXXX: >Kermit32> set line TTYXXX: >before dialing out gives a faster response for me, why I do not know >...maybe someone else would know the answer You forgot to add one line, by the way. If you do an $ALLOC TTXX: and then go right into Kermit, the baud rate is wrong (unless the terminal TTXX: is set permanantly). So, you need to do this... $ ALLOC TTXX: $ SET TERM/SPEED=(max speed of your modem) TTXX: $ Kermit Kermit32> Set line TTXX: - John Sottile Student Systems Programmer Loyola College in Maryland JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET Or, via FIDONET 261/659 (LCPUG Opus) WOC and Woll, Welly Wild!