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Article: 12486 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!panix!news.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail
From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: kermit-connection + kermit -s + error-count: NOT redialing-in?
Date: 25 May 2001 04:55:26 -0400
Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp.
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Frank:
I have a sparc5/solaris7 with kermit; using kermit
I dial into Panix.com (uses netbsd on PCs).
Fine. I login, run tcsh, etc.
NOW, I want to download (to my sun) a big file.
Actually, due to problems with binary mode,
I take the .tar.gz and uuencode it and
then (because of downloading problems on
this panix system I'm using, or due to the
interface I have incorrectly set up),
I "split -l1000 foo.tar.gz.uue zz",
resulting in maybe 30 zzaa zzab ... files to download.
I run kermit -s `cat zz*` (actually, `cat t.nam`)
and depending on time of day or something I don't
understand, it will do several zz-files and then
get hung there, slowly incrementing the error-count.
NOTE that I am using kermit for the initial
connection itself, and then (on my shell acct
on panix) I run *their* kermit -s to download.
I am not sure just what is going on, whether
there is one or two kermits running, or what.
BUT -- here is the problem:
That panix-kermmit -s; it starts generating ERRORS.
Slowly.
(Rarely, very rarely, after several errors, it
somehow cleans itself up and quickly finishes
the download.)
---
Anyway, now I want to STOP that (second) kermit (the
one I started on panix, with the -s `cat t.nam`).
Hell, I'd like to KILL that job -- and then
get back to the tcsh prompt ON PANIX, and
then rerun that kermit -s ... --
NOT TOUCHING THE KERMIT RUNNING ON MY SPARC5!
---
PROBLEM: that seems IMPOSSIBLE.
The ONLY way to kill that panix-kermit is, I
think so far, is that control-\ c:
(1) it is by no means "instant".
(2) (of course) it gets me back to the
SUN-KERMIT prompt -- from which I have not
yet found anything to do other than "readial".
QUESTION: is there any way to make kermit
die ON PANIX, so I can just rerun it?
----
QUESTION: any way to set the limit on the errors, and
if so, will THAT make the panix-kermit die but
keep me logged into panix, at a shell prompt there?
QUESTION: where in c-kermit book is the list
of "options" ("switches") -- can't find them
in the index.
QUESTION: I have been posting here in confusion
about the panix netbsd and my difficulties
(a) staying connected, and
(b) downloading (binary fails TOTALLY for me).
(this all worked FINE when I was using netcom.com's
shell-accounts -- THEY used SUN-HARDWARE and SUNOS --
(and I had a sun).
OFFER: If you'd like, I would be DELIGHTED to
give you may password for logging into panix,
and then YOU could figure out what is going wrong.
If interested, just contact me: 913-632-1883,
or dkcombs@panix.com.
Thanks so much, Frank!
David combs.