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Article: 13723 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: rayward@metronet.com (Ray Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Help! Trying to send files via serial modem...
Date: 24 Sep 2002 18:17:29 -0700
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What I'm trying to do:
New federal legislation requires financial institutions to check
certain transactions against a federal database of suspected
terrorists. To do this, my client needs to get data off of a fairly
large number (100's) of old Xenix 2.3.2 SysV boxes (i386) to an
off-site, modern box to do the checking. (I'm not sure that all the
Xenix boxes are the exact same version.) Deadline's in October.
My first thought was to automatically send files daily using Kermit
>from a cron(1) script to a ProCommPlus 4.8 server running in Kermit
server mode on the client's Win2000 box. The Xenix boxes have only a
1.2Mb 5.25 floppy and a serial port external US Robotics Sportster
modem (ranging from 2400-14400 bps). They were bought with
application software only, no C compiler, make, man, etc., so I have
to find an executable file. They already have the ProCommPlus set up.
My fall-back options are: to try to configure UUCP, and get the
client to set up a Linux box with UUCP as the central server; or, find
another binary that will run on the old Xenix boxes (ProYAM?).
Here's the problem:
When I try to connect from the interactive Kermit that I found on one
machine (072 24 Jan 89 Xenix/286) it seems to connect, then drops the
line. I tried loading the G-Kermit binary from the Columbia site, but
it's not interactive, and I can't figure out how to get it to dial
before trying to send the files.
So, I downloaded the 21-day eval copy of Kermit95 2.0 onto my Win98
box and got the same result, with a little more detail:
Kermit session.log:
ATQ0V1
OK
ATDT9721234567
CONNECT
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bš~?~?~?∩┐╜∩┐╜∩┐╜∩┐╜@d‡?~?∩┐╜
NO CARRIER
Looks kind of like a baud rate mismatch. So I set both the PC+ and
the Kermit95 to 2400 baud, xon/xoff, 8n1, full duples, 1 check byte.
Didn't help.
No packets are logged.
Any ideas? How do I get past this immediate disconnect?
Thanks,
Ray Ward
rayward@metronet.com