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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
Subject: Re: FINISH command
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:43:11 -0800
Organization: Not Very Much
Message-ID: <382F490E.10F65BF7@value.net>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
"Bond, James Bond" wrote:
>
> I am connecting to a VMS machine running VT100. They require Kermit
> protocol for uploads.
>
> I am running a terminal program, that supports the Kermit protocol, on
> a Win98 PC.
Which terminal program?
> Everything goes perfectly until my file transfer finishes. I am
> required to send the FINISH command. I understand that this command
> is actually a key combination (ALT-?, or CTRL-?)
No, it is not a key combination. It is a Kermit protocol packet
containing a FINISH command.
> 2 problems: #1, the program I am running seems to trap CTRL key
> combinations so I cannot even at the remote prompt.
> ( >Ctrl-g to quit does nothing)(No typed text is accepted)
> #2, I cannot find the command sequence for FINISH.
Some terminal programs which support Kermit protocol will offer a method
for sending a finish command. It might be an item in the file transfer
menu or dialog. It might be a keyboard entry of some kind.
Other "brain dead" programs such as HyperTerminal that comes with Win9x
offer no such method and are thus not very useful.
The real answer is to use a real Kermit implementation/Terminal
emulation program for Win9x, namely Kermit95 - see
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
Short of this, you might try faking a finish packet by typing the
following 6 characters:
1) start of packet character - usually ctrl-A
2) dollar sign '$'
3) space ' '
4) 'G'
5) 'F'
6) '4'
If you can't convince your terminal program to pass the ctrl-A, then
you're probably out of luck.
Another possibility is to look at the VMS end. It appears to be acting
as a kermit server, thus the necessity for a finish command to end the
server mode. Maybe there is some way to tell it to just receive one
file instead of going into server mode.
What is the Kermit program at the VMS end? How do you tell it you're
going to transfer a file?
--
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan