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From: "Steve" <steve@baus-systems.com>
Subject: Re: DOS Kermit dies ...
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:29:27 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Thanks,
Steve
Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message
news:eI0gH3R2asj3@cc.usu.edu...
> In article <gWtomC2dEjRt-pn2-w3u4eOmsEORl@era0>, era@eracc.bizland.com
(ERA) writes:
> > Hello Mr. Doupnik,
> >
> > I upgraded two POS computers for a client from Pentium 100's running
> > MS-DOS 6.2 to Celeron 466MHz running IBM PC-DOS 2000. They are using
> > MS Kermit patched to 3.16, IIRC. Now the overnight file retrieval
> > dies. The DOS machines crash with an error when the remote system
> > tries to login and access the DOS host to get the nightly data. I
> > can't tell yet if it dies at login or at the attempt to retrieve. The
> > error occurs before their system is turned off for the night by a
> > timer switch. It was working before the hardware / DOS upgrade.
> >
> > I haven't yet been able to capture the error due to time constraints
> > with the client for testing. I have heard, since upgrading them,
> > there are "issues" with 400MHz and faster machines trying to run DOS
> > communication apps. Is this true? If so how do we prevent the
> > problem? If you can, please write me direct using:
> >
> > support@eracc.bizland.com
> ---------
> The dialogue has been carried on point to point, but here is a
> snippet which covers essential bases. The very old speed problem
> resulted in a divide by zero fault when opening a connection. It has
> been fixed for a long time.
> --------
>
> MSK 3.16 does not have problems with fast CPUs. I am writing
> this message using that Kermit and the machine has a 900MHz AMD Athlon
> cpu, a heck of a lot faster than a 466MHz Celeron. Some obvious things
> to check are the quality of the memory chips and the Bios setup for
> peripherals. I have not heard of IBM's DOS 2000, so if that has unusual
> things compared to regular DOS then I will be unaware of them.
> In all, I think the machines themselves have difficulties and
> Kermit is simply revealing them.
> Joe D.