NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/5913

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From: [e-mail] (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: Is a better version of c-kermit available?
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 03:10:14 GMT
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In article <-c1ysb=@rpi.edu> [e-mail] (Paul Jason Clegg) writes:

>I'm also using C-Kermit as well, and I've often lost characters.  I used a
>copy of MS-Kermit earlier, but every time I got a connection with it, I got
>an illegal function call warning...

You should be able to use MS-Kermit in a DOS bos reliably at up to 9600 baud
if you tell it to use the ports through BIOS (ie: Bios1-4) rather than
directly.  Tell Kermit the appropriate baud rate, but take care of flow
control and signaling with the OS/2 MODE command.  And if you have a 16550
UART, setting BUFFER=ON can improve performance/load quite a bit (see my
recent post to comp.os.os2.misc).

Going through the BIOS does limit you to 9600 baud though..

-- David
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