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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: K/2 gotchas
Date: 5 Jan 1998 14:46:52 GMT
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In article <TCPSMTP.18.1.4.-14.19.44.2375661496.4900277@kincyb.com>,
<dallasii@kincyb.com> wrote:
: >: ... the BBS generates a stream of
: >:
: >: ^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H...........
: >:
: >: to indicate that things are not dead while the package is prepared.
:
: > What is the syntax of your INPUT command?
:
: How about this:
:
: ; *** File KINCYB.QWK (307954 bytes long) is now ready for download ***
: input 500 is now ready for download ***
:
It looks fine. I tested this here by created a file containing 125,000
repetitions of ^H|^H/^H-^H\^H| (a total of 1MB) followed by
"*** File KINCYB.QWK (307954 bytes long) is now ready for download ***".
I told the host to display this file while K-95 was executing:
input 500 is now ready for download ***
It worked fine. Could it be that the message "*** File KINCYB.QWK (307954
bytes long) is now ready for download ***" is not sent in one piece?
: > Well, this kind of script programming is a lot easier now that both
: > K95 (K/2) and MS-DOS Kermit support the MINPUT command (INPUT that looks
: > for Many things at once). There is virtually no longer any need for
: > REINPUT.
:
: Thanks for pointing this out. Is this a real command in MS-DOS
: Kermit 3.15?
:
Yes.
: I see where a macro MINPUT is shown in the KERMIT.BWR for 3.14
: documentation file.
:
Look in MSK315.DOC. It's also documented in "Using C-Kermit", 2nd Ed,
which comes with K95.
: Trying to think of anything else that might be important on this,
: the only other things I can think of are that I'm using an old style
: 83 key (or what ever - less than 90) keyboard (it never previously
: caused any problem that I'm aware of), and the USR modem acts a little
: flakey when we get what passes for winter weather out here. I
: really don't know if this last point is the modem or something with
: the phone lines when they get cold or damp. (I'll try it with the Zoom
: internal as well to check on that. The (slower) Zoom never seems to be
: bothered by the weather.)
:
Although it is an exercise in futility these days, we recommend -- and
always have recommended -- against internal modems. Modems being what they
are these days (buggy), do you really want one of the plugged into the *bus*
of your computer? See Item 22 of the Kermit FAQ:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/faq.html
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/faq.txt
- Frank