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- From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
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- Subject: Kermit on PRO 350 under P/OS and Venix 1.0
- Message-ID: <BARRY.92Aug14080706@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:07:06 GMT
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- For those who are interested, we have located versions of Kermit
- that work on the PRO 350 under P/OS and Venix.
-
- K11POS.TSK is runnable from DCL on P/OS. You can find copies on
- ftp.utoledo.edu or watsun.cc.columbia.edu. The problem is bootstrapping
- it into the machine over the network. If you already have an older
- version of K11POS.TSK, then bootstrapping is no problem, but if you
- have no existing way to transfer binary files over the COM1 Port,
- then you either need an RX50 diskette, or you have to load it in
- with ASCII transfer of K11POS.HEX, a 'Hexified' encoding of K11POS.TSK
- similar in spirit to uuencode on Unix and BinHex on Macintosh. There
- is a small Basic program, K11HEX.BAS to convert a .HEX file into a .TSK
- binary, but it only runs under RSX/Reese Basic, not under the P/OS
- Basic 1.2 or 1.4.
-
- The only version of Kermit that I was able to compile successfully
- on PRO Venix 1.0 is an old, primitive version called uxkermit.c,
- found on watsun.cc.columbia.edu in the kermit/extra directory. You
- need all uxk*.c files except uxkervms.c (which is for C on VMS).
- There is no Makefile. You have to hand-build it with
-
- cc -c uxk*.c and cc -o kermit *.o
-
- I had no luck compiling either Kermit 4E or 5A on PRO Venix 1.0.
- 4E exceeds the limits on the size of the Data Space. It compiles
- but doesn't load. 5A doesn't compile at all, due to various
- compiler complaints too numerous to list.
-
- If anyone knows of a superior version of Kermit for either P/OS or
- Venix, please let us know.
-
- Barry
-