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From: rusty@btg.com (Rusty Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: A problem with PREFIX'ed characters
Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:15:36 -0400
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Please let me call the Kermit maintainers' attention to what appears
to have been a problem for me when using the latest version of MS-DOS
Kermit with C-Kermit 5A(190) on a Sun. This problem has to do with the
differences in which control characters that each version of Kermit can
set/unset as prefixed. In C-Kermit, the command "set control unprefix
all" sets the control characters ASCII 1-31,127-159, and 255 as being
unprefixed. Oddly(?) enough the NULL character, ASCII 0, is always listed
as being prefixed. That cannot be changed, so it appears. Hrumph!
Now let's look at the current version of MS-DOS Kermit, v3.14.
"set control unprefix all" sets even the NULL character as being
unprefixed yet the user can not tell Kermit "set control unprefix 127" nor
"set control unprefix 255" without an error message as one could do in
C-Kermit.
For me, performing "set control unprefix all" to both C-Kermit and
MS-DOS Kermit before a *binary* file transfer appears to causing the
file not to be transferred because of the differences in what each
version of Kermit considers "all". Is this something that needs to
be coordinated between the C-Kermit and MS-DOS Kermit maintainers?
To me, both versions appear to be incorrect in that if I request all
characters to be unprefixed, then by golly I should get that for ALL
256 characters. Maybe I've missed something here....
Thanks for your consideration.
-Rusty-
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_____ Rusty Haddock ## KD4WLZ -- Weird Looking Zucchini
|\/ o \ o DOMAIN: rusty@btg.com UUCP: uunet!btg!rusty
| ( -< O o I planted my antenna farm and aluminum and copper poles
|/\__V__/ came up. The strange thing is that I used steel seeds.
--
_____ Rusty Haddock ## KD4WLZ -- Weird Looking Zucchini
|\/ o \ o DOMAIN: rusty@btg.com UUCP: uunet!btg!rusty
| ( -< O o I planted my antenna farm and aluminum and copper poles
|/\__V__/ came up. The strange thing is that I used steel seeds.