MacKermit's Bugs
Posted: November 14th, 1984, 11:01 am
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Subject: MacKermit's Bugs
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 17:01:26 EDT
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From: "Kevin W. Laurent"
I scarfed this message from the info-kermit Digest. I, too, am having
problems getting MacKermit to work (other host is a Multics). Is
everbody who downloaded Kermit having problems, or are we in the minority?
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>
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 84 9:13:19 EDT
>From: Dave Swindell
>Subject: MacKermit Problems with Kermit-10
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
>
>I recently FTP'd the hex file for MacKermit over to one of our UNIX
>machines dehexified it, and used macput to transfer the output .rsrc
>file to a Macintosh. When I tried to use the resulting program to
>connect to a DEC 10 running TOPS 10, I had the following problems:
>
> 1) In terminal emulation mode, MacKermit would occationally
> 'forget' where received characters should be displayed. Fre-
> quently, MacKermit would overwrite the last line and/or
> character it displayed.
>
> 2) While in terminal emulation mode, MacKermit would bomb out
> leaving me with the message: System error id=2 (and the little
> bomb).
>
> 3) When I tried to send or receive files to Kermit-10 on our
> DEC 10, MacKermit would simply hang. I would have to press
> the reset switch and reboot.
>
>I was running at 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, and
>with Xon/Xoff support. I specified 'Macwrite' format for all
>attempted file transfers.
>
>Any help which you could provide in helping us get MacKermit to
>perform correctly would be appreciated. If you have any questions
>concerning this message, please let me know.
>
>Dave Swindell
>BBN Labs
>dswindell@bbn-unix
>
>[Ed. - Steve, are you out there? We have been able to transfer files
>with a DEC-20, which is very similar to a DEC-20, although when
>selecting MacWrite format, we get an awful lot of junk mixed in.]
>
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From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: fa.info-mac
Subject: MacKermit's Bugs
Message-ID:
Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 17:01:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1869
Posted: Sat Oct 6 17:01:26 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 09:08:19 EDT
Sender: daemon@uw-beave
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
Lines: 50
From: "Kevin W. Laurent"
I scarfed this message from the info-kermit Digest. I, too, am having
problems getting MacKermit to work (other host is a Multics). Is
everbody who downloaded Kermit having problems, or are we in the minority?
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>
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 84 9:13:19 EDT
>From: Dave Swindell
>Subject: MacKermit Problems with Kermit-10
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
>
>I recently FTP'd the hex file for MacKermit over to one of our UNIX
>machines dehexified it, and used macput to transfer the output .rsrc
>file to a Macintosh. When I tried to use the resulting program to
>connect to a DEC 10 running TOPS 10, I had the following problems:
>
> 1) In terminal emulation mode, MacKermit would occationally
> 'forget' where received characters should be displayed. Fre-
> quently, MacKermit would overwrite the last line and/or
> character it displayed.
>
> 2) While in terminal emulation mode, MacKermit would bomb out
> leaving me with the message: System error id=2 (and the little
> bomb).
>
> 3) When I tried to send or receive files to Kermit-10 on our
> DEC 10, MacKermit would simply hang. I would have to press
> the reset switch and reboot.
>
>I was running at 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, and
>with Xon/Xoff support. I specified 'Macwrite' format for all
>attempted file transfers.
>
>Any help which you could provide in helping us get MacKermit to
>perform correctly would be appreciated. If you have any questions
>concerning this message, please let me know.
>
>Dave Swindell
>BBN Labs
>dswindell@bbn-unix
>
>[Ed. - Steve, are you out there? We have been able to transfer files
>with a DEC-20, which is very similar to a DEC-20, although when
>selecting MacWrite format, we get an awful lot of junk mixed in.]
>
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KLaurent@DENVER