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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: MSK in W95
Date: 6 Apr 1999 22:01:13 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
In article <370A6667.1501DC84@boeing.com>,
David Hauck <david.p.hauck@boeing.com> wrote:
: I am having some difficulty using MSK in the Win95 and WinNTW
: environments. We are using MSK version 3.10...
:
>From 1991. The current version is 3.15, with 3.16 in Beta test:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
: ...to communicate with
: computer controlled milling machines. The machine controls are running
: kermit server as a background process. We use a W95 application to pull
: a file out of a DataBase to a temporary file on the workstation, then
: initiate Kermit from a batch file using the temporary file name.
: Sometimes the transfer works ok, other times it just seems to hang with
: the first packet, and other times there are many retries before the
: transfer completes. When Kermit is called from the W95 application
: several messages appear in the DOS window "?This port will be operated
: through the Bios as BIOS1" and "Unimplemented speed" when 19200 is
: selected as the baud rate. When I change the port settings from BIOS1
: to COM1 the file transfers every time. Is there a way to override the
: BIOS1 setting from a batch file?
:
Wherever the Kermit commands are coming from, you should be able to
include "set port com1" among them. But the real question is...
: Would K95 be a better choice to do file transfers in a W95 environment?
:
In most cases, and increasingly as PCs are built specifically for Windows
and are full of Windows-only or Plug-n-Play devices: yes. MS-DOS Kermit
can usually work in Windows 95 with perfectly standard COM ports as long no
other application (e.g. a fax receiver) has "registered" for them with TAPI,
but otherwise all bets are off. Actually all bets are off in just about
every case, since problems like the one you are reporting are the rule
rather than the exception, the moreso with newer PCs.
Our recommendation when you run into trouble with with MS-DOS on Windows 95
(98, NT, or OS/2) is to use Kermit 95, which runs native on those platforms.
- Frank