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Article: 13724 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: "David Font" <comms@systime.co.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.dcom.modems
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Subject: Re: Help! Trying to send files via serial modem...
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You have described the XENIX systems. What is connecting to them?
"Ray Ward" <rayward@metronet.com> wrote in message
news:7ea6ad1.0209241717.7af4adc8@posting.google.com...
> What I'm trying to do:
> New federal legislation requires financial institutions to check
> certain transactions against a federal database of suspected
> terrorists. To do this, my client needs to get data off of a fairly
> large number (100's) of old Xenix 2.3.2 SysV boxes (i386) to an
> off-site, modern box to do the checking. (I'm not sure that all the
> Xenix boxes are the exact same version.) Deadline's in October.
>
> My first thought was to automatically send files daily using Kermit
> from a cron(1) script to a ProCommPlus 4.8 server running in Kermit
> server mode on the client's Win2000 box. The Xenix boxes have only a
> 1.2Mb 5.25 floppy and a serial port external US Robotics Sportster
> modem (ranging from 2400-14400 bps). They were bought with
> application software only, no C compiler, make, man, etc., so I have
> to find an executable file. They already have the ProCommPlus set up.
>
> My fall-back options are: to try to configure UUCP, and get the
> client to set up a Linux box with UUCP as the central server; or, find
> another binary that will run on the old Xenix boxes (ProYAM?).
>
> Here's the problem:
> When I try to connect from the interactive Kermit that I found on one
> machine (072 24 Jan 89 Xenix/286) it seems to connect, then drops the
> line. I tried loading the G-Kermit binary from the Columbia site, but
> it's not interactive, and I can't figure out how to get it to dial
> before trying to send the files.
>
> So, I downloaded the 21-day eval copy of Kermit95 2.0 onto my Win98
> box and got the same result, with a little more detail:
>
> Kermit session.log:
> ATQ0V1
>
> OK
> ATDT9721234567
>
> CONNECT
> ∩┐╜?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~∩┐╜ j ∩┐╜X∩┐╜∩┐╜2 ~?~?~ ∩┐╜∩┐╜a(ˆ cš∩┐╜∩┐╜ ∩┐╜@
> bš~?~?~?∩┐╜∩┐╜∩┐╜∩┐╜@d‡?~?∩┐╜
> NO CARRIER
>
> Looks kind of like a baud rate mismatch. So I set both the PC+ and
> the Kermit95 to 2400 baud, xon/xoff, 8n1, full duples, 1 check byte.
> Didn't help.
> No packets are logged.
>
> Any ideas? How do I get past this immediate disconnect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray Ward
> rayward@metronet.com