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Article: 12499 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Al Weston <alweston@netcene.com.NOSPAM>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Receive Errors moving from Kermit 6 to Kermit 7
Date: 31 May 2001 17:09:16 -0500
Organization: H.O. Systems, Inc.
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That did it! Thanks :)
On 31 May 2001 18:26:48 GMT, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da
Cruz) wrote:
>In article <dstchtsrc3st7vt752ojtlivp0d7pb4fa1@4ax.com>,
>Al Weston <alweston@netcene.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
>: I'm having a problem moving from Kermit 6 to Kermit 7. I have a script
>: that uses kermit to retrieve a file from a dialup server running
>: something called Data Express on a Tandem system. Getting more info on
>: the sending system is like pulling teeth. They don't seem to know what
>: they have.
>:
>: The script was built for Kermit 6.0.192 running on SCO OpenServer
>: 5.0.5, and it works just fine on this platform. But the same script
>: when run under Kermit 7.0.196 on AIX 4.3.3 fails every time with an
>: error message of "Refused, format" during the transfer.
>:
>So you are changing two things at once -- the platform and the Kermit
>version. Usually it's better (though not always possible) to change one
>thing at a time.
>
>: I can connect,
>: login, etc., just fine, but once the file transfer begins, I get the
>: same error every time. The file I'm retrieving is a plain text file.
>: It's the same kind of modem (Hayes Optima) on both systems, and the
>: serial port settings are the same (8N1, 19200).
>:
>I've heard of this error before. The Tandem Kermit (one that is not
>known to us) is sending an unknown record-format announcer. Here is
>packet log from a similar report:
>
> r-xx-18-<timeout>^M
> s-00-18-^A# N3^M
> r-00-20-^A0 S~& @-#Y3~.##M%^M
> s-00-20-^A9 Y~2 @-#Y3~^>J)0___F"U1@H^M
> r-01-00-^A-!FF0008938+B:^M
> s-01-00-^A2!Yachcredit.txt&03^M
> r-02-01-^AQ"A!!8"!A#120010403 11:42:03*!A."M5/$AM961$8192)(O^M
>
>The attribute packet contains:
>
> !!8 = Length in K = 8
> "!A = Text mode
> #120010403 11:42:03 = File date
> *!A = Text encoding is ASCII
> ."M5 = OS is Tandem Nonstop
> /$AM96 = Record format is ?????
> 1$8192 = Length in bytes = 8192
>
>AM96 is not a valid record format. Since you can't control the Tandem end,
>the workaround is to tell C-Kermit to:
>
> set attributes off
>
>which makes Kermit ignore the Attribute packet that contains the invalid
>record-format code.
>
>- Frank