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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Subject: Re: Kermit & K6-2 incompatible?
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Date: 19 Feb 99 13:55:32 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <7aka85$l6c$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> In article <7ak8dp$bfu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
> Chris Jee Yen Tan <techno@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> : I just ran Kermit 3.12 & 3.13 in a DOS box(Win98) on my K6-2 300
> : to test whether or not serial overruns were occuring due to the
> : serial port or driver. However in both DOS box and restart to
> : DOS it crashes reporting a "division by zero error". I remembered
> : quite clearly running this program on my previous PC (Cyrix M2 PR166)
> : quite fine. So is there some incompatible problem regarding Kermit
> : and my PC. The only version that worked OK was Kermit 2.32 which did
> : not crash. Anyone got any ideas as what could be wrong?
> :
> Since you are using Windows 98, you'll need Kermit 95:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
>
> - Frank
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When you run very old code on very new machines you expect diffences.
The current release of MS-DOS Kermit is v3.15, and v3.16 is in beta. Use
one of those and there will be no such problem. Better yet, don't start the
GUI.
Joe D.