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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:48:23 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-17 fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(FrankdaCruz) said:
FD>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
FD>In article <UaLg4.6412$NU6.261988@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
FD><cangel@famvid.com> wrote
FD> On 1900-01-16 jrd@cc.usu.edu(JoeDoupnik) said
FD>JD> What you seem to be impervious to, despite repeated
FD>JD> reminders, is 94 byte Kermit packets is the original and
FD>JD> default operating condition. In lieu of negotiations on
FD>JD> the wire that is what is used, and it will work where
FD>JD> longer packets will not. It's the specification of the
FD>JD> protocol. That may not fit your particular tastes, but
FD>JD> it is the standard and has been for eons.
CA> Then you should remove html#7 (if I remember correctly)
CA> from your website
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FD> What is html#7? Please use URLs so we know which page you
FD> mean. 94-byte packets were never a mistake. They were
FD> appropriate at the time (early 1980s) and still work.
FD> Longer packets are more appropriate now, but they still
FD> don't always work.
Check the site that Joe Doupnik gave me for the v315 source
code. A copy of this is in the same directory he mentioned.
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JD> Charles,
JD> Despite all, you have a point, which was unstated but otherwise
JD> implied. It is the source files for MSK are difficult to pick out on
JD> Columbia's ftp/web site. They are, it's terrible trying to do this.
JD> To make things simpler right now please visit netlab1.usu.edu or
JD> netlab2.usu.edu, go into the Kermit directory and see a source
JD> subdir. Take what's there, which will be the source files for MSK 3.
JD> 15 (not 3.16). These are my machines.
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FD> Are the `scripts, hints, and kinks' in a particular
FD> directory or just wherever they can be found?
FD> MS-DOS Kermit has a manual
FD> http//www.columbia.edu/kermit/manuals.html
You left out FOR SALE. 8)
FD> It also comes with lots of text files including KERMIT.BWR
FD> (the "hints and tips and 'watch out'" file),
FD> NETWORKS\SETUP.DOC, which goes into great detail about
FD> setting up a network connection. These files are on your
FD> own PC's disk if you installed from the main MS-DOS Kermit
FD> 3.14 ZIP file (versions 3.15 and 3.15 are "overlays" over
FD> the 3.14 distribution, as explained on the Web page).
FD> By the way, you can now pick up the source files for MS-DOS
FD> Kermit in convenient ZIP'd format at
FD> ftp//kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/msk315src.zip
Thanks.
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