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From: Alexander B. Latzko <LATZKO@RU-BLUE.ARPA>
Subject: Apple Kermit
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As far as I know Apple Kermit (DOS verison) was written by Tony Mione
at Stevens Institue of Technology.
alex
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Subject: Transferring directory trees
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Frank da Cruz mentioned the possibility of transferring entire directory
trees with kermit. There are a few problems with this. Basically what
would happen is you would have a directory file sitting on the remote system.
However, there is no trace of the files in the directory. All of the
real information about where the file is stored isn't even in the directory.
A better approach is to use a program such as tar and then transfer the
resulting file via kermit. The tar format is well documented and can
probably be read by most systems. This means you wouldn't even have to
worry about transferring say, from a MS-DOS system to a UNIX system.
Carl Fongheiser
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From: "Webb Mike"@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Subject: KERMIT FOR TELEVIDEO 802
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DOES SUCH A BEAST EXIST??? BEFORE I START.
MIKE
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From: HOWALD <HOWALD%USC-ECLB@SRI-NIC>
Subject: Kermit for Apple IIe w/Super Serial Card
To: info-kermit@COLUMBIA-20
I am trying to install the 6502 version of Kermit on an Apple IIe with a super
serial card. I'm having problems re-writing APPLBT.BAS so that it will work with the superserial card--I can't seem to get the right combination of IN#2, PR#2,
and CTRL-A TERM MODE. If someone out there has gotten KERMIT working on
the above setup, I would be grateful for their help. I am a novice where
Apples are concerned. *james
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From: Peter G. Trei <OC.Trei@CU20B>
Subject: Apple DOS Kermit.
To: info-kermit@CUCS20
[CU Area Apple/Kermit Hacker]
People trying to use Kermit-65 (Apple DOS Kermit) Version 1.1 with a
Super Serial Card have been running into problems. Here is how to make
it work.
1. Before you start up Kermit, send the SSC the following string: ^AZ
(thats Control-A, followed by Z). This will disable the SSC's command
recognition. The SSC usually looks for ^A in the terminal input, and
strips it out. It then looks at the next character, and if it is a
valid SSC command, strips it out as well and performs the command.
Trouble arises from the fact that Kermit uses ^A to announce the start
of each packet. Typing ^AZ disables the SSC from seeing further ^A
commands. If you really need to have access to the SSC commands again
before you turn off the Apple, type ^A^W instead, which will change
the command prefix to ^W, which should not appear during Kermit file
transfer.
There is a bug in the code to support the Super Serial Card,
which must be fixed before it will work at all. If you look in the
source code for Kermit-65 (APPLEK.M65 in <KERMIT>, and search for the
label TL2CP:, two lines further down you will see a line which reads:
AND #$04
At this point, Kermit is ANDing a status register with a bitmask. If
the result is non-zero, a character has been received from the modem.
the problem is that 04 is the wrong mask; it should be 08, according
to page 54 of the SSC manual.
To fix this, you can either alter the source, recompile, and
upload the new version, or much more quickly you can patch the binary
version you already have. Here's how to do the patch from Applesoft:
]BLOAD APPLEK.BIN
(or whatever you are calling your copy).
]POKE 8665,8
(thats a decimal address)
]BSAVE NEWKER,A$800,L$4900
Thats all. The new version contains the patch. With this, file transfer
using the Super Serial Card has been done at 1200 baud.
3. Those of you who use 1200 baud modems will have noticed that
you loose characters at the beginning of each line when the screen is
scrolling. This is not Kermits fault, but rather the slowness of the
software used to scroll the screen image in the Apples memory.
According to the SSC manual, you can eliminate this by slightly
narrowing the scroll window. The following poke does it:
]POKE 35,22
This will make line 22 the bottom of your scroll window, which is
enough.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone on the list who is using