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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MSKermit Login Problem
Date: 1 Feb 1995 16:11:10 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <9501291851.AA22159@swcscmd-fs>,
Mr. Calvin Rome <dtd-lo3@usasoc.soc.mil> wrote:
>I need some help getting MSKermit to login to a UNIX platform
>running SUNOS 4.1.
>
(Long description omitted...)
Forget about script programming for a moment. Can you log in
BY HAND? If not, given evidence like the following:
> login: t-lo3 then it locks up
> login: DD-3 then it locks up
> login: dtd-lo3
>
I would say that your host had suddenly been programmed to require
a certain type of parity for incoming characters, most likely "even".
Try telling MS-DOS Kermit to:
set parity even
(or "odd", "mark", or "space" if "even" doesn't do it) and most likely
it will work.
By the way, this is one of the most fundamental problems we encounter
in data communications, and you could not have missed it if you had
read the manual.
- Frank
P.S. There is no earthly reason why a host should *require* parity on
incoming characters, so another approach would be to ask the system
administrators to put it back the way it was before.