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From: am856@yfn.ysu.edu (Michael DeCosta III)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit protocol text translation?
Date: 4 May 1995 02:49:20 GMT
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In a previous article, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) says:
>In article <3o3poi$b81@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
>Larry Powell <jpowell@cello.gina.calstate.edu> wrote:
>: When doing a kermit protocol file transfer in text mode, which end
>: (sender or receiver) does the actual text translation?
>:
>As explained in each one of the Kermit books, both.
>
>: In a related sense, current versions of kermit seem to be setup where
>: the sender sets the filetype (TEXT or BINARY) and the receiver is
>: supposed to change itself to match (no matter what its current setting).
>:
>Right. Also explained in the books, and in somewhat more detail in our
>FAQ, question 10:
>
> ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/faq.txt
>
>: Combining these questions, I was wondering if there was some way the
>: receiving kermit (probably MS-Kermit 3.14 or CKermit) could (or does ?)
>: have an option to force the receive filetype to what the receiver wants?
>: (This would be most useful if it is the receiving program that does
>: text translation.) (It would be ok to have this setting default to being
>: controlled by the sender (as it is now and would ordinarily be) but it
>: might be nice to have such an option.)
>:
>Yes. See the FAQ and the KERMIT.UPD file for MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 and the
>ckcker.upd file for C-Kermit 5A(190) (and the update notes for IBM
>Mainframe Kermit 4.3.1). This is a new feature in these new versions, and
>it works like this: when one of these Kermit is in server mode, then the
>other Kermit, i.e. the client, controls the transfer mode.
>
>- Frank
>
Could anyone post the page numbers in the MSKermit 3.13 manual that Frank
is referring to? I too would like to read up on this dry stuff.