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- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Kermit over NCSA Telnet(Using hardware=decnet)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.194430.58275@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 01:44:30 GMT
- References: <2220@sjfc.UUCP>
- Organization: Utah State University
- Lines: 39
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- In article <2220@sjfc.UUCP>, cpd1450@sjfc.UUCP (Craig Dufresne) writes:
- > I have set up a PC to connect to a BSD4.3 Vax using NCSA Telnet 2.5.03,
- > using the command hardware=decnet. I am also running pathworks with
- > connections to Lat machines via the sethost command.
- >
- > Now, I would like to add Kermit as an option. I can't use the packet
- > drivers since they seem to screw up decnet. Is it possible to run kermit
- > over the NCSA Telnet. The Kermit book talked about using Interrupt 14, is
- > this related to the NCSA command net14 ??? Any help or explanations would
- > be greatly appreciated ...
- >
- > Craig Dufresne
- > Internet: cpd1450@sjfc.edu
- -----------
- Craig,
- There's more than hope. First, Pathworks using NDIS and DECnet
- packets can indeed run jointly with Kermit. What you need in this case
- is a small protocol shim to provide a Packet Driver interface and use
- NDIS as a substitute for a board. I happen to offer one named dis_pkt9.zip,
- similar but not quite the same as dis_pkt.gup offered by FTP Inc though
- they do the same basic job. Obtain dis_pkt9.zip by anonymous ftp to
- netlab2.usu.edu, cd misc. There is a doc file in that archive. Also, MSK
- v3.12 beta is in parallel directory kermit.
- Kermit has it's own internal TCP/IP stack for use with Telnet, as
- well as working over other stacks by various methods. I have never gotten
- NCSA's NET14 program to work here, undoubtedly a failure on my part, but
- in any case performance will be much much better without this.
- As an added benefit, one time only, call now... is you can also
- run Kermit on the top of Pathworks, replacing SETHOST. All this is handily
- discussed in the user's manual, the paperbound book "Using MS-DOS Kermit",
- 2nd ed, Christine Gianone, Digital Press and Prentice Hall, 1991. A hint
- is SET PORT DEC hostname; this will use either LAT (preferrably) or CTERM
- automatically. And for calling right this minute... you can do both over
- Pathworks and do Kermit's internal Telnet without rebooting etc. Nifty
- slicing and dicing.
- Further queries on the Kermit part of this should be sent to me
- at either jrd@cc.usu.edu or jrd@watsun.cc.columbia.edu. Please read the
- docs and give things a try first however.
- Joe D.
-