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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: BBS and Kermit
Date: 25 Nov 1999 16:40:20 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <vI5%3.1$f5.662@news1.wwck1.ri.home.com>,
Bob Bernstein <bobbern@delphi.com> wrote:
: My local bbs, a Wildcat board, now has a telnet node, so I have been
: trying to access it and grab qwk packets with Kermit. With K95, and
: using the board's zmodem protocol, the packets come through nicely.
:
: If I set the board to use its kermit protocol, then the packets come
: through mangled and can't be unzipped. This even if I set K95 to "robust"
: mode.
:
: I get the same result using Kermit for DOS on another machine, i.e. qwk
: packets sent to me via kermit get corrupted in transit.
:
: I do notice some oddness at the end of the d/l; it's as if the board isn't
: sure the packet d/l has been completed. I don't see this using zmodem.
:
The Wildcat Kermit implementation has had this bug for years; I guess it
still has it. For an explanation see Section 4.22 of:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/test/text/ckermit2.txt
(in particular, section 4.22.3). The workaround described there is available
so far only in C-Kermit 7.0; the real solution, of course, is for Wildcat to
fix the bug.
But if you want fast and accurate Kermit files transfer, I'd recommend you
install a real Kermit program as the external Kermit protocol on your BBS.
For some hints (regarding DOS-based BBSs), see:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/newsn6.html#bbs
- Frank