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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.1.3 problems
Message-Id: <1994Nov23.150438.33689@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 94 15:04:38 MDT
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In article <3b058b$aeb@chopin.udel.edu>, darkstar@chopin.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) writes:
> In article <3avsfs$iq2@news.cais.com>, <pifer@cais2.cais.com> wrote:
> :>From: darkstar@chopin.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
> :>: 3) "rollback 0" does not work the same as it did in 3.1.1.
> :>:
> :>: 4) File transfer does not work. We set terminalr and terminals
> :>:and execute the local escape sequence but the PC does not see it. Again,
> :>:it works in 3.11 version.
<big chunks omitted>
> :There might just be a misunderstood idea of how it works; most people here
> :think by setting rollback to 0 that there will be unlimited amount of
> :screens to be saved. I will have to clarify this everyone involved here so
> :that this one can be resolved without any testing involved.
Rollback 0 has always meant, and continues to mean, no rollback
screens.
> Well, I would chalk it up to a misunderstanding. For as long as I can
> remember, rollback 0 meant to turn off rollback. In fact, give me a
> sec... Yep, double-checking in my Using MS-Kermit v3.11 (didn't want
> to use the latest, just in case something may have changed), it says
> the same thing.
>
> :>4) Terminals and Terminalr don't exist anymore. Check the *.upd and
> :> *.bwr files. Their funcionality has been replace by using apc command
> :> codes. If you look at the C-Kermit ini files, you will see a bunch
> :> of macros that use apc to send sequences down to the pc to do
> :> ``one-sided'' file transfers.
> :
> :I have looked up the apc in the kermit.upd but have not come upon how to
> :set it correctly on the PC side. There are examples on to do that same on
> :the host side but do not relate equivalently. I also do not have .ini files
> :where they are defined. Do you have any examples of such?
>
> Okay, here are the macros from C-Kermit:
>
> define pcget apc {send \%1 \%2}, receive
> define pcsend asg \%9 \ffiles(\%1),-
> if = 0 \%9 end 1 {\?File not found},-
> set delay 1, apc receive,-
> if = 1 \%9 send \%1 \%2,- ; Single file with as-name
> else send \%1 ; or wildcard with no as-name
>
> Make sure you do ``set term apc on'' to enable this feature. I think
> that MS-Kermit only accepts and understand APC signals, but doesn't
> send and out.
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Both. MSK 3.14 has command APC to send to a host, in addition to
VTxxx reception of them.
Thanks Jerry,
Joe D.