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Article: 13642 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Problem switching from (ancient) shelltool to CDE's dttool (sol 9!)
Date: 21 Aug 2002 12:41:32 -0400
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In article <ak0e9s$jo0$1@reader2.panix.com>,
David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
: ...
: You're saying that if I can get 8bit ascii
: being communicated, I can see the french
: stuff, and will see an e-accented-acute instead
: of the "i" I now get for it?
:
Yes. Read Chapter 16 of the manual.
: And the termcap/terminfo -- I guess that
: would be on the isp's machine, not mine?
:
Correct.
: If you had your druthers, what kind of
: ..term would *you* use: dtterm vs xterm?
:
People on the Sun newsgroup can answer this better
than I can, but xterm is pretty standard and close
to vt100 (vt102 actually). So if you use xterm and
then tell the host that your terminal type is
"xterm" or "vt102" or "vt100" (try them in that
order) and you are using an up-to-date copy of
Kermit (8.0.201), everything should work fine.
In case a phrase such as "tell the host your
terminal type" means nothing to you, then try
giving a command like the following at the host's
shell prompt:
export TERM=xterm
or:
TERM=xterm
export TERM
or:
setenv TERM xterm
or:
tset xterm
Which form to use depends on the host and your shell.
: What do you suppose the problem is with the
: control-L not having the otherwise-universal
: effect of re-displaying the screen?
:
What happens when you send Control-L to the host
depends on the application that gets the Ctrl-L.
Assuming you have terminal-type agreement between
emulator and host, it should either clear the screen
(e.g. in bash), redisplay the screen (e.g. in
EMACS), act line a linefeed, etc.
: Oh, and one more thing -- what chapters or page-ranges
: would you have me work on (in your c-kermit book)?
:
For serial ports, modems, etc, start by reading
Appendix II: A Condensed Guide to Serial
Communications.
: For someone like me who seems to know nothing,
: any particular order in which to read the
: chapters/sections or page-ranges you suggest?
:
Once you understand Appendix II you should be able
to read the chapters in order. Obviously you can
skip the chapters that don't apply to you -- for
example if you only make serial connections, you
don't need to know about networking.
: And FINALLY -- finally -- here's what I'm
: running now (sort of ancient; maybe not
: really):
:
: C-Kermit 6.0.192, 6 Sep 96
:
Time marches on. The current version is 8.0:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
If you visit the Kermit home page occasionally:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
you can see what's new, what's current, etc.
- Frank