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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit via PPP under DOS?
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Date: 2 Oct 97 21:00:15 MDT
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In article <60i3al$8l@gateway.dircsa.org.au>, arthur@gateway.dircsa.org.au (Arthur Marsh) writes:
> Vladimir Alexiev (vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote:
>
> : In addition to Merit PPP (PPP.EXE that is distributed with Kermit), there's
> : another free PPP driver for DOS that you may want to consider. It is PPPD.EXE
> : in the archive MSDOS/PKTDRVR/DOSPPP05.ZIP on any SimTel mirror. It takes only
> : 57k in memory (as opposed to 95k taken by Merit PPP), and is more robust.
>
> The demoware PPP at ftp://ftp.klos.com/demo/pppdemo.exe also works, but I
> haven't tried the pppshare.exe at the same location.
>
> What I did have problems with was that the MS-DOS Kermit "check TCP" command
> succeeded when I had a FOSSIL driver, BNUi, loaded, but nothing else that
> might resemble a TCP/IP capability for MS-DOS Kermit 3.15. Therefore, I
> needed to manually change MSCUSTOM.INI between serial FOSSIL communications
> and TCP/IP over the Klos ODI over PPP stack.
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The MS-DOS Kermit command CHECK TCP tells whether or not the TCP/IP
stack is built into the program, because we issue MSK with and without that
stack. Thus the CHECK <whatever> command is a test for which features are
complied into a particular issue of the program.
Referring back to other messages in the thread from Vladimir that try
to tie PPP driver behavior with the origin of the app TCP/IP stack: the
TCP/IP stack in MSK originated with Erick Engelke at the Univ of Waterloo
(wattcp). Evolution acted rapidly and the MSK TCP/IP code has been very
different from wattcp code for many years. Packet Driver material in MSK was
never from wattcp. People can check this by looking at source code for the two.
Source code for MSK 3.15 will be available shortly (delayed by travel).
Joe D.