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In <3u25av$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jeffrey Altman) writes:
>Actually, there is a standard.  Its the DEC VTxxx programmer's manuals

I am not sure I agree. Over the years, I have seen four different flavors
of the Tektronix emulation: 1) The original VT100 graphics terminal with
the Retrographics enhancement card. 2) The HIREZ graphics terminal (forgot
the company, but we had tons of those). 3) The VT330 terminal. 4) An IBM
PC with Kermit.

All of these use a different method (escape sequence) to switch between
graphics and text. Some of them (the VT330) clear the screen when switching
and are therefore useless to me. Since all four are different, my VAX
programs have an input parameter which tells the program the type of
terminal. Therefore, I am not sure why say that there is a standard, if
the VT100 and VT330 behave in a different way. Everytime we bought a new
VAX terminal from DEC, we had to study the manuals and change our code.
Graphics input (cursor position) is yet another story. We never got it to
work with the VT330, only on (some, but not all of) the Retrographics.

>I can tell you that it does not work with 3.14 nor has it worked with
>any version of MS-DOS Kermit that I have had in the last two years.
>The only solution you have is to spend $25 and purchase Ray Gwinn's SIO
>Fossil Drivers and his VMODEM product.

I don't mind spending $25 or less per machine, but I still have not figured
out how to use KERMIT with Ray Gwinn's SIO drivers. The Kermit manuals
mention Fossil generically, but not specifically. Therefore, I could not
see how to set up SIO.SYS to invoke Kermit over the internet.

I also looked at the SIO driver documentation. There is a note in the
current version saying that the documentation in the current version (1.50)
is incomplete. Maybe what I am looking for is not included in the current
version.

I loaded SIO.SYS, VSIO.SYS, and DX00.SYS in my CONFIG.STS file. The latter
two take no parameters, therefore there is no problem. But what do I
specify for SIO.SYS. COM1 and COM2 are standard and need no parameters.
I know from reading the docs for VMODEM that there are some switches that
reroute a virtual COM port through the internet, but these switches are
not documented in SIOUSER.TXT or SIOREF.TXT.

In summary: The Kermit docs do not explain the use of Ray Gwinn's drivers,
and Ray Gwinn's docs don't explain how to use Kermit. Does anybody know how
to mate the two and can explain what to put into my CONFIG.SYS and how to
call KERMIT. I'd sure appreciate it.

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