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Article: 12448 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ms-kermit
Date: 19 May 2001 00:18:22 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <9e4dba$g37$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@31.usenet.us.com> wrote:
: Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
: : To answer the question you actually asked, yes, visit Columbia...
:
: Joe, that wasn't the answer either ;-)
:
: If he truly needs an "old" copy of kermit for some reason, I probably have
: several iterations lying around...
: Now, if I could just locate a 5-1/4" diskette to read them with ;-)
:
: Seriously, I do have old copies, if they can't be located elsewhere.
: Give me a version number, and I'll find it, if you and Frank can't resolve
: the K-95 compatability.
:
Yes, obviously old copies of MS-DOS Kermit are kicking around, even on the
Kermit FTP site. But no, we don't want you to give up on Kermit 95 after
you bought it, because we don't take your money without standing behind our
work.
Secondly, an old copy of MS-DOS Kermit is not necessarily going to work in
Windows (there tend to be issues with the clock). In many cases, a new copy
won't either. See:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/msk95.html
for a brief enumeration of the issues.
In any case, I doubt very much that I will be unable to resolve any problem
that Kermit 95 has transferring files with an old version of Kermit that was
able to transfer files with an old version of MS-DOS Kermit. My original
answer included a URL that probably contains the answer. Here it is again:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit2.html#x4.22
The most likely reason for the trouble is "control-character unprefixing",
an performance enhancement that was first introduced about ten (10) years
ago. Some Kermit programs, contrary to the protocol specification, are not
able to accept bare control characters as file data. The workaround is very
simple -- tell the sending Kermit program (K95 in this case) to:
set prefixing all
If that's not it, then given a few details about the problem, we'll solve
it. That's what we do here.
- Frank