Date: Thu, 2 Apr 87 02:07 EST From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Subject: Apple Kermit 3.75 Keywords: Apple Kermit Tried installing apple kermit 3.75 from the nosc-shark files. (INSTALL1-5) It works fine as a communications handler; haven't tried the VT52 emulation yet. Can't get it to transfer files to this system (a multics system reached via GTE Telenet). The two systems can't seem to negotiate the parameters (fails on first or second packet.) Note that this system (Dockmaster) works just fine on MS-Kermit. Further note: if I try to turn flow control (xon&xoff) on, things really fall apart -- get garbage characters. My micro is a II+, super serial card, hayes modem, viewmaster 80-col card, off-brand of aftermarket full ASCII keyboard. Note that the configuration works just fine with AExpress. Should I give up and fall back to an earlier version? (I haven't been tracking all the traffic.) [Ed. - Turns out the problem was that he forgot to SET PARITY. After that everything worked ok.] ------------------------------ Date: 24-APR-1987 10:31:30 From: SYSKERMIT%vax1.central.lancaster.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Bugs in new Apple Kermit (A2) Keywords: Apple II Kermit Alan Thomson of our Chemistry department reports a few problems with the new A2 Apple Kermit. These were found using a non-interrupt driven Mountain Hardware CPS card (the driver for which will be sent over to you soon): 1. When using GET, A2 Kermit lingers around doing things internally for long enough to miss the first few characters of the server's response. After timing out and retrying things settle down to work OK. 2. After issuing FINISH the Apple side waits for 5 seconds before reissuing its command prompt. ------------------------------