[comp.sys.amiga.datacomm] Need help with VLT/Xprkermit

ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (04/30/91)

Hello, all:

  I'm using the latest versions of VLT and xprkermit.library to talk to
a host system with communication parameters of 7 bits, mark parity, and
one stop bit. I run a kermit server on the host system, and I attempt to
recieve a file with VLT/xprkermit. I get an 'Invalid Parity' message
when I attempt to transfer from the system. I have kermit set to
transfer ASCII files, host as server, small packets, basically a
lowest-common denominator kermit setup. Even when I disable parity
checking in VLT, I cannot transfer files.

  Some background: I have read and understood the Columbia Kermit
protocol manual, and I know kermit can transfer over a 7-bit mark
parity link. With my Amiga, the only terminal program I have found that
will transfer over a 7M1 link is an ancient version of DBW_VT100 that
often locks up for no apparent reason. I have successfully transferred
to and from the host system with 7M1 settings with the following other
machines: A Mac IIx, two different kinds of Sun workstations, and
various PC clones.

  I have read the xprkermit docs, and I grepped through the xprkermit
source to see if the message is emitted from there - I did not find it.
I do not yet have the VLT docs (and I'm not interested in the VLT docs
if it cannot transfer to and from the machine I use at work). Does
anyone know of anything that I've missed?


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