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From: pepmnt@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (John Chandler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Dial Out from Kermit CMS
Date: 15 Nov 1995 03:29:01 GMT
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In article <47d55m$hgu@news-owego.endicott.ibm.com>,
<shirley@lfs.loral.com> wrote:
>I've sucessfully dialed out with Kermit-CMS by telnetting from the Kermit-CMS prompt to
>a port on the terminal server setup for dialout. How do you actually send and receive files
>though? I tried SHOW ESCAPE to see what the escape character is so I can hotkey to
>local mode, but no luck.
Kermit-CMS doesn't have a CONNECT mode. Since terminals on IBM mainframes
(like other I/O devices there) talk in block mode, you simply cannot have a
transparent session passing through to a remote character-mode host. Not
only that, but the terminal connection is inherently half-duplex, so that
even a partial implementation requiring the user to press an attention key
after every ordinary keystroke would still fail to simulate a transparent
session. You can run Kermit-CMS in local mode, but only by dialing into
an alternate virtual terminal device.
John Chandler