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- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.151448.992@merk.com>
- Keywords: KERMIT, UNARC, huge, VT100, Speedscript, Catch-22
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
- References: <1gvcv3INNp04@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec22.145256.8122@merk.com> <sourada.725062825@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:14:48 GMT
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- About the "mammoth file too large to fit on an ATARI 6502 8-BIT disk drive"
- ARC incompatibility problem....
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- <* Sound Of Trumpet Fanfare... *>
- Fortunately (for me) the System Manager was able to come through in this
- crisis. Yay! It turns out that there is a utility he has that is able to
- run an MS-DOS process as a child process within the UNIX shell environment.
- He keeps it around for just such emergencies. I was able to start up an
- MS-DOS subtask and run an UNARC-ing utility on the UNIX system, to unbundle
- the KERMIT-65 archive. (The file is immense!) I don't know what I would
- have done if I had been on a VMS, CMS, AOS, PRIME, or some other operating
- system. The unarcing was practically instantaneous... WOW! was that fast.
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- I tell you, starting up the MORE/LESS pager on the KERMIT-65 code was a
- very moving experience. When I got down to the 80 character graphics font
- definition I openly wept, the experience was so moving.... (I also
- discovered I few things I had never realised, like that the DEC special ISO
- GRAPHICS CHARACTER SET for VT52/VT100 was --ALSO-- available in --FORTY
- COLUMNS--. I never knew that you could draw ISO GRAPHICS in forty-columns!
- You can have a lot of fun with this! There were also forty column versions
- of LEFT-BRACE, RIGHT-BRACE, BACKQUOTE, and TILDE. I am sure that I had
- seen them before, but it never registered before that the ATARI 6502 8-BIT
- has --NO-- braces in its normal character set!)
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- Paging through the KERMIT-65 code was almost a religious experience; it was
- so moving. It was a thing of beauty to behold, and a joy forever! (Now if
- only someone would substitute XMODEM for KERMIT, and add MS-DOS ANSI
- GRAPHICS along with the DEC ISO GRAPHICS, you would have a VT100 that
- really *-ROCKS-* !) Just walking through the source listing I am really
- learning a lot. Thank you! Thank you ATARI Archive at UMICH. !
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