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From: [e-mail] (Ken Kirkby)
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Subject: Re: PDP-11 Kermit
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 12:23:32 GMT
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> Hello, All, especially Kelvin Smith & Terry Kennedy.
>
>         Frustrated with getting file transfers to work between RSTS and VMS
> (i.e. the SET ATTRIBUTES OFF problem), I have been hecking around some with
> trying to make the KRT version of Kermit to work on RSTS/E.  There are still
> tons of unfinished bits, and rough edges, but I have successfully transfered
> binary files with attributes and ascii text files between RSTS and VMS
> using it.  (Also, the spiffy new help is nice and fast, though inaccurate for
> the RSTS version!)
>
>         My questions are if I devote more time to this (it will require LOTS
> more to make something suitable for any one else to use), will anyone care?
> Is anyone else engaged in anything similar; who I should be talking to?  Also,
> what should I call it?  (Right now, it is KRT, although it is at this point
> completely incompatible with the real KRT, but K11 would imply compatibilty
> with RSX, which right now it isn't, and I don't have any way to test it with
> either RT11 or RSX.)  If there is a groundswell of support, are there any
> features that are desperately needed?
>
>         For background, I started with the K11 & KRT sources from Columbia,
> and merged in a few changes that I had originally gotten from Terry Kennedy's
> RSTS BBS several years ago (the X3.60 version)  I removed from KRT lots of
> stuff that was purely RT-11 related, and pasted in a bunch of stuff from K11
> that had been dropped from KRT (RMS handling, RSTS connect mode, file
> attribute handling, etc.)  I have only even attempted to build it with I&D
> space; I think it might be getting to big to run otherwise.  (On the plus
> side, I&D gives plenty of room for buffers; I have gottten it to send from
> RSTS to VMS with 2000 byte packets, although for reasons I haven't
> figured out yet (maybe just need to bump buffer quotas, or maybe flow
> control is getting turned off), I can't get it to receive with packets larger
> than about 600 bytes.  Still, this is much better than 90 bytes!)
>
> John Santos
> EGH     (work: [e-mail], home: [e-mail])
John, keep at it. There are a few of us out there, who will be very pleased. In
fact I was just muttering about the speed  and problems with the present Kermit
with John Geremin on Thursday night, in relation to upgrading a V7.0 site still
running RK07's. Anyone got spare RK611's?

Regards Ken Kirkby
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