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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble with C-Kermit and TRANSMIT
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:30:12 GMT
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In article <369280b5.0@amhnt2.amherst.edu>, <jwmanly+news@amherst.edu> wrote:
: Hi there. I've been trying to use the C-KERMIT TRANSMIT command on our
: VAX/VMS system, and have been having some trouble. The problem seems to be
: that the TRANSMIT command only sends the first line of the file if the other
: side of the connection is set in NOECHO mode, and in particular is not
: sending back carriage returns and line feeds following each line that
: C-Kermit transmits.
:
Right, that's exactly what it does unless you tell it otherwise.
: So for example, if I use C-Kermit to connect to an interactive system that
: does normal remote echoing of characters, everything works fine. If I
: TRANSMIT a multi-line file, each successive line is sent to the remote
: system. However, if the remote system is NOT set up to echo what is typed,
: and then I do a TRANSMIT of a multi-line file, I find that only the first
: line of the file is actually sent, though the TRANSMIT command does complete
: and return me to the C-KERMIT> prompt after a moment.
:
: It seems to me I ran into this problem before when I was trying to use
: C-KERMIT to script some NNTP dialog using the TRANSMIT function, and I don't
: think I ever found a workaround or even managed to figure out exactly what
: wasn't working.
:
: Does anybody know a way to fix this? What parameters (handshake, etc) might
: effect the line-by-line operation of the TRANSMIT command like this?
:
Try telling it to:
set transmit prompt 0
This means, "don't wait for anything before sending the next line".
- Frank