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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: DOS Kermit under W95 (I KNOW it's unforgivable!)
Date: 31 Oct 1997 00:41:24 GMT
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In article <34591E72.3FBD@SpaceComputer.Com>,
Wm. B. Kendall <Kendall@SpaceComputer.Com> wrote:
: I am running DOS Kermit 3.14, Patch Level 9, because Tektronix 4010
: emulation is a requirement. I want to do this in a DOS window under
: Windows 95. I will connect to the host over our Ethernet. (I made this
: work under OS/2 with a little help from my friends in this group.) My
: problem is that I don't know how to set the port parameters to
: accomplish this under W95 (I have a fossil driver installed under OS/2,
: and SET PORT FOSSIL 4 and connect via ATDT commands as if I were using a
: modem.) Can anyone advise me on this?
:
Spoken like a true agent provacateur! This is a touchy topic, but suffice
it to say that this is not a supported situation. Yes, there is a VMODEM
utility for OS/2 that lets you do this -- but with singularly unsatisfactory
results for reasons which are explained in:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cko191.html
I am not aware of any such utility for Windows 95, but even if there were
one, I would heartily dis-recommend it for all the same reasons. And absent
such a utility, you are left with the virtual impossibility of running
MS-DOS Kermit's built-in TCP/IP stack over the same network adapter as
Microsoft's Winsock stack, for all the reaons you can read about in your
NETWORKS\SETUP.DOC file, and many more besides.
This is not to say that it is COMPLETELY impossible, but those who witnessed
the recent lengthy discussion between Joe Doupnik and Vladimir Alexiev on
these premises and similar goings-on elsewhere (comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc)
will appreciate that this is not a door to be opened frivilously or without
risk -- to your time budget, your sanity, or your PC.
In the meantime, we are hurtling towards that golden hour when all things
GUI will be revealed and Kermit 95 too will be permitted to put dots on the
screen. (But to re-emphasize: GUI first, Tektronix most likely afterwards.)
And then onwards to the next three-letter-acronym (TLA). What will it be?
OCX, DDE, OLE, SSH, SSL, ... Chasing after them now occupies a greater
portion of humanity than I care to think about. But fortunately the
alphabet will soon be exhausted and we can move up to *four* letter
acronyms, each in its many versions (1.0, 2.0, ...), and what joy it will
be to comply with them all!
Sorry, never mind :-)