home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Columbia Kermit
/
kermit.zip
/
newsgroups
/
misc.19970626-19970929
/
000196_news@newsmaster….columbia.edu _Tue Aug 19 12:13:29 1997.msg
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
2020-01-01
|
3KB
Return-Path: <news@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
Received: from newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.30])
by watsun.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21458
for <kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
Received: (from news@localhost)
by newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09201
for kermit.misc@watsun; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT)
Path: news.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MUMPS and Kermit
Date: 19 Aug 1997 16:13:24 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 46
Message-ID: <5tcgn4$mle$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <01bcac22$96ccc900$b02f74cf@AT&T> <XrV9dH2zb8Z2@cc.usu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu
Xref: news.columbia.edu comp.protocols.kermit.misc:7504
In article <01bcac22$96ccc900$b02f74cf@AT&T>,
"Carl Frey" <Carl-Frey@Worldnet.att.net> writes:
> Does anyone know of a product that will run under MUMPS and support Kermit
> file transfer protocol?
>
> I know, I know. MUMPS was thought to be dead and buried, but I have just
> signed up a new customer that runs a medical package ("Medics II") on an
> IBM/PC, which, runs the MUMPS O/S. All the users are on IBM 3101 "dumb"
> terminals emulating VT100s..
>
You mean, MUMPS is the native OS on the PC, or it's running under some other
OS like DOS or Windows or OS/2 or UNIX?
> We are trying to get a PC running Windows 95 to pretend that its a VT100.
> Easy enough you say, just use BLAST you say. Okay I Say. But, what do you
> do about file transfer?
>
> Apparently, when they (my customer) wants to transmit invoices to the
> providers (like Medicare), they need to shut down the MUMPS O/S, boot DOS
> and send the file over the modem using ProComm.
>
Obviously we don't support BLAST or Procomm here -- they are not our products
and we have our own instead:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
Our PC versions emulate the VT100 (and many other terminals), offer serial
as well as network connection, and include Kermit and sometimes other file
transfer methods, as well as full scripting capability.
> If we had a PC that could receive the billing file from MUMPS and then
> transfer it, we could lift these people out of the self-induced coma caused
> by uploading their billing.
>
One solution would be a MUMPS version of Kermit. We do have such a thing,
although to my knowledge nobody has looked at it or used in quite some time.
It was written in Digital Standard MUMPS-1982 for the PDP-11 MUMPS operating
system, and will no doubt require some dusting off and refitting to work on
your PC-based MUMPS system (see especially the notes in mpker.bwr).
You can find MUMPS Kermit at:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/b/mp*.*
If you make any progress with it, let us know.
- Frank