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- From: brentw@coopsol.com (Brent Williams)
- Subject: Re: HELP! Need kermit for WANG CS2200
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.011937.5863@coopsol.com>
- Organization: Cooperative Solutions, Inc.
- References: <BxxCA0.3K2.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 01:19:37 GMT
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- redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English) writes:
-
- >Hello,
-
- > I've been asked to see if I can find kermit (or any other
- >communications program) that will allow a WANG CS2200 to
- >exchange files with a PC-clone.
-
- > I checked the columbia kermit archives, but they don't
- >list anything for WANG mainframes - any help would be
- >much appreciated!
-
-
- Calling a Wang 2200 a mainframe is rather a bit of a stretch.
- You are probably out of luck with this one. Your best bet is
- to write a program on the Wang that essentially does the
- equivalent of UUENCODE for encoding the data, then connecting
- your PC to the terminal port of the Wang via a serial line.
- It takes 8,E,2 parameters -- a far cry from the 7,N,1 usually
- used in Unix systems. Then you have a program that checksums
- the uuencoded data that you sent over. A simple BASICA program
- to decode the data and compare the checksum would work well.
- A Wang 2200 programmer could probably knock out something like
- this in about 30 minutes. It's been too many years for an old
- guy like me to remember exactly how to do this, and you couldn't
- afford me anyway :-)
-
- I did this about 6 years ago for a consulting client and it went
- great for transferring about 100mb of data off the Wang -- not a
- single transmission error, so I could have conceivably done with
- out the checksum part.
-
-
- -brent
-
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- Brent Williams/Cooperative Solutions Inc., San Jose CA (408) 377-0300
- brentw@coopsol.com
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