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From: Michael Hamelin <hamelinm@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: CKERMIT 1.90ALPHA - SCHOLAR REPLACE USROBOTICS
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:15:22 -0400
Organization: Foreign Autopart, Inc.
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To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> In article <37385C02.34A6@worldnet.att.net>,
> Michael Hamelin <hamelinm@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> : NEED SERIOUS HELP...
> :
> : We have an alphaserver 2100 running vms6.2-1h3 with ckermit-5a(190).
> : Cuurently we use dec scholar 2400 talking to mv3100 running vms
> : 5.3-5.5-2 with scholars or usrobotics (sportsters 33.6 faxmodems). we
> : have written scripts to download data to our 33 stores and upload data
> : from our stores in the afternoon.
> :
> : this environment works...take the dec scholar out of the picture and
> : place a usrobotics in and change the fixed baud rate from 2400 to 19200
> : and the scripts breakdown. It connects and shows the user prompt, before
> : the script is ready and the script never gets to log in ??? i have
> : turned off modem error correction and data compression at both ends.
> :
> : anybody have a clue ??? this is crazy...two modems with fixed rates ??
> : it is acting like a handshake occured and some characters got to vms
> : login section and shouldn't have ???
> :
> Most likely your 2400-bps modem was slow enough to avoid data overruns in
> VMS, but 19200 is fast enough to cause them (in the absence of adequate
> flow control).
>
> In any case, a lot has happened to C-Kermit since 5A(190) came out in 1994.
> Pick up C-Kermit 7.0 from:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html
>
> Among other improvments, it knows how to set up a USR modem for dialing out
> from VMS exactly as it needs to be (modem signals, flow control, etc).
>
> - Frank
thanks...will this help...i tried v6.0 and nothing mattered....if v7.0
will help (i guess it can't hurt), but do you think it will solve the
issue ???