drues@iastate.edu (Michael E Drues) (03/15/91)
Finally got around to installing VLT v.5.034. Have it running but as soon as it starts up, window opens and says libs:xprkermit.library no found (or something like that). Sure enough, it's not in libs: Where can i find this library. Next, periodically i get a message window like: Script - error in line 0, token: srx Unknown command Can not upload or download files using binary kermit, perhaps cause above library is missing. Can someone give me a pointer to get this thing working better? mike -- Michael Drues Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Internet:drues@iastate.edu 1146 Veterinary Medicine BITNET:v2.med@isumvs.bitnet Iowa State University Office:(515)294-6520(or 4-1771) Home:(515)233-5652 Ames, Iowa 50011
WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (03/19/91)
When VLT complains about "srx", it means you have programmed something
(most likely the "beepfunction") to use that command.
In the old version of VLT, the srx command was implemented to mean
"synchronous RX", i.e. send this to REXX now, and wait for the reply.
This was sometimes necessary, since it wasn't possible to have more
than one command pending at any time. Since VLT does two beeps after
a transfer, the second beep would be ignored with a simple RX
command, since the first one would still be pending (no time to pick
up the reply message until the next full loop over everything).
Nowadays VLT's scripting is completely multithreaded and the simple RX
command works fine both times. At that time, the command set was rationalized
to get rid of all the strange stuff that crept in, and the SRX command
diappeared. There is still an equivalent: RX SYNC, but you shouldn't need
that very often (and it's a little dangerous in the current version: it can
block VLT completely).
What's all this mean, you ask. Well, to fix it, select Program Mode On,
and select Beep Volume. You will likely see the beep command start with
a tilde followed by something like srx "address 'PingServer' BEEP" .
Change srx to rx, hit return, select Program Mode Off, and save the
configuration. Poof, all done... 8)
Willy.