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- Date: Tue, 14 May 91 11:46:47 EDT
- From: Mike Freeman <freeman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- To: info-cpm@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, fdc
- Subject: Kermit-80 Version 4.11
-
- Dear Mr. Mills:
- In a recent Info-cpm digest, in article <26697@hydra.gatech.EDU>,
- you asked how to get Kermit-80 version 4.11. going. Lance
- Tagliapietra's answer was a good one. You also might want to get
- cpaaaa.hlp from watsun's ~kermit/a/ directory; this gives the machines
- that Kermit-80 currently supports along with the filenames of the Intel
- hex files for those machines. As Mr. Tagliapietra says, you probably
- won't have to rebuild the system-independent part of Kermit-80. If your
- CP/M machine is one of those currently supported by Kermit-80, you need
- only get the system-dependent hex file and combine them with MLOAD, DDT,
- DDTZ or whatever (MLOAD and DDTZ are my preferences since they don't
- require you to calculate image length for a CP/M SAVE). If your system
- is not supported, pick up cpxtyp.asm, cpxcom.asm, cpxlnk.asm and
- cpxswt.asm. Currently, systems are organized into "families", as, for
- example, Amstrad machines. If you were going to recompile Amstrad
- Kermit's system-dependent file, you'd also get cpxpcw.asm. Some systems
- (as, for example, the HP-125) are in the files cpxsys.asm and
- cpxsy2.asm, which you'd get. In any case, if your system isn't
- supported, get a "family" file that's close or create one yourself. If
- your system doesn't have a built-in terminal, you'll also need
- cpxvdu.asm (which contains terminal drivers). Set the appropriate
- switch in cpxtyp.asm to true (or put one in for your system if it isn't
- supported), set a terminal-switch to TRUE (or select Generic CRT if
- nothing's listed for your terminal or put your terminal's codes into a
- family file or cpxvdu.asm), get LASM or M80 and compile away. L80 can be
- used to link the system-dependent file but you must be sure to do a
- /P:7000 as the first part of the L80 command tail so the REL-file has
- the proper absolute address. You still need MLOAD, DDT, DDTZ or
- whatever to combine the files, so why not get LASM and use it, too.
- Hope this message along with Mr. Tagliapietra's message helps you. Feel
- free to ask either him or me any Kermit-80 queries you'd like.
- By the way, I think you'll like Kermit-80 4.11. It's got support
- for many REMOTE commands (advanced server commands). It's only drawback
- is that it doesn't support repeat-prefixing or extended-length packets
- yet -- get QTERM version 43E (along with my bug fix for it) to get those
- features.
- Cheers!
- -- Mike Freeman K7UIJ --
- 301 N.E. 107th Street
- Vancouver, WA 98685
- (206)574-8221 (home)
- (206)690-2307 (work)
- P.S. If your system isn't supported, you'll also need to (a) create a
- family switch in cpxtyp.asm or (b) set sysfam TRUE and put your code in
- cpxsys.asm/cpxsy2.asm. Then compile and link. -- Mike Freeman K7UIJ --
-