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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: ASCII character 186 killing transfer
Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <7u2qqd$a2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Mr. Scott <scott_davis@my-deja.com> wrote:
: Synopsis:
: Using C-Kermit 7.0.195.Beta.02 on AIX 4.2.1...
:
We've issued 8 new Betas since then -- you might want to try the latest:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html
: ... to dial a serial modem into
: a similar AIX box, then telnet from OS prompt to yet another AIX box.
: Then try and transfer a file with an ASCII 186 in it. The transfer
: times out. Don't know why, but removing that character removed the
: problem. There are other > 127 characters in other files that are
: producing similar results. What should I set things to? It doesn't
: look like I can prefix this character (or the other ones).
:
In fact, that's probably what you need to do.
Transferring files through concatenations of connections is always
tricky, because any assumptions that each Kermit program makes by looking
at its connection are going to be wrong.
Try one or both of the following:
To prefix all 8-bit characters, use "set parity space".
To prefix all control characters, use "set prefixing all".
- Frank