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- HP-150 Kermit 2.31 Notes, July 1988...
-
- MS-DOS Kermit 2.31 was tested successfully on an old HP-150 with DOS 2.01. It
- works at least as well as earlier versions did, i.e. it barely keeps up at 4800
- baud. Recommended terminal settings (via the HP-150's built-in setup mode --
- push User/System, then push F8 "config keys", then F3 "port1 config"):
-
- Baud Rate: 4800 or lower. 9600 will hang the machine.
- Parity: none (let Kermit handle parity in software, use SET PARITY command)
- Data bits: 8
- Clock: INT
- Asterisk: Off
- Stop bits: 1
- EnqAck: No
- Check Parity: No
- Flow control: Xon/Xoff if the remote system supports it.
- None otherwise, but use a lower speed, like 2400 or 1200.
- You must also use None when using EMACS.
-
- Others: No, or experiment.
-
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-
- Date: 17 March 89, 09:09:10 CET
- From: ODAE@ds0rus1i
- Subject: MS-DOS Kermit for HP150 and IBM PC(clones)
-
- We received the new Kermit implementation for IBM-PC compatibles and
- for the HP150 on March 14th 1989 as files MSVIBM.BOO and MSVHP1.BOO
- - thank you!
- With the version for the HP150 we have one problem: normally our
- line to the host computer HP3000 is working with enquire/acknowledge
- handshake - but I found no choice in the Kermit help to handle this
- protocol. Kermit automatically overwrites the port configuration
- with xon/xoff handshake and does not reset it on leave. Even more
- confusing: The port configuration menu shows still 'enq/ack' -
- handshake, which is no longer valid. It can only be reset
- to 'enq/ack' by pressing the 'save configuration' soft key.
-
- In the actually distributed version for IBM PC (-clones) MSVIBM.BOO
- the 'script' commands like 'output', 'input' etc. seem not to be
- implemented.
-
- Best wishes
- Klaus Thonke
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 17:20 MDT
- From: Joe Doupnik <JRD@cc.usu.edu>
- Subject: HP150's
-
- First, the serial port for the 150 is touched at startup as are
- all the variants except the IBM PC. I had to do a fancy dance in the IBM
- version to keep the port pristine til needed and time did not allow doing
- a similar one for the variants. I'll look at the HP150 stuff regarding
- stx/etx.
- Script commands are missing comment. Klaus must have an old old
- version of Kermit. They are present and the task won't build without them.
- Checked the HP150 code. There is no such flow control as stx/etx or
- enq/ack in the code; never was to my knowledge. The only flow control choices
- are none and xon/xoff and those are maintained in the system independent parts
- of things. What's more, MS Kermit/HP150 does not even use the serial port
- hardware of the machine; it's basically Generic Kermit with pure DOS calls.
-
- Regards,
- Joe D.
-
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