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From: rnglauz@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Kermit using PDQ Comm
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 06:50:44 -0800
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <rnglauz-1708000650440001@news.ucdavis.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
PDQ Comm works to send a character string (output=string) and the server
receives the string okay. What is the format of a string to send
instructions to DOS? Bob.
In article <8n9el7$g9s$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
> In article <rnglauz-1408001025550001@news.ucdavis.edu>,
> <rnglauz@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> : We have managed to transmit a file using PDQ Comm with the Kermit protocol
> : to our server. The server is running Kermit 3.0 on a 386 at 9600 baud -
> : this will stay the same as it is used to receive files from the HP48.
> :
> : Now we would like to send a DOS command to tell the server to make a copy
> : of the file on a: (example: copy pb002e a:)
> :
> : Please advise any suggestions. One alternative is to transmit the file
> : twice but this seems like an inefficient method compared with executing a
> : DOS command
> :
> MS-DOS Kermit 3.0 and later (and you have 3.0; the current version is 3.15)
> is capable of running in server mode, and accepting commands from the client.
> However, I doubt that PDQ Comm knows how to send client commands to a Kermit
> server.
>
> If you were using MS-DOS Kermit or Kermit 95 on the client, you would use
> a sequence like this:
>
> send pb002e
> if fail stop 1 Upload failed.
> remote host copy pb002e a:
> if fail stop 1 Copy failed.
>
> See the Kermit Project website for current Kermit software releases:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
>
> - Frank