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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit script crashing
Message-Id: <1995Nov8.081043.66280@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 95 08:10:42 MDT
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In article <mip.11.00150CA8@mphd1.novell.leeds.ac.uk>, mip@mphd1.novell.leeds.ac.uk (Martin Plumb) writes:
> I have written a Kermit script which runs on a PC and automatically enters
> data into a database running on an IBM RS6000 computer.
>
> Everything works as I would expect until the end when the script tries to
> send the appropriate sequences to log off from the RS6000. At that point it
> puts ^O on the screen and apparently crashes.
>
> Further investigation revealed that it doesn't crash - instead, it comes out
> of the script and into connect mode where I seem to have to type CTRL N
> and <Return> before it will talk again.
>
> The root cause of the problem appears to be the sequence:-
> ESC [ 63 ; 1 " p
> which is sent by the RS6000. As far as we can establish, that is supposed to
> select a VT mode and perform a soft reset.
Scripts do NOT run in Connect mode, the terminal emulator runs only
in Connect mode. The above control sequence is passed to DOS by scripts
and that is the agent becoming confused by it. ANSI.SYS does not qualify
as even a poor VT100 emulator let alone a sophisticated VT320.
Joe D.
> I tried setting TERM to a non-Ansi type (eg VT52) just before the
> sequence was due to arrive but it didn't solve the problem.
>
> Incidentally, if I go through the whole procedure in connect mode, Kermit is
> quite happy!
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Martin Plumb