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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VLT insists on sending PATH with file!!! :<
- Message-ID: <crystal.716569569@glia>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:06:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.716569569
- References: <crystal.716447070@glia> <1992Sep15.034305.29644@trl.oz.au>
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- In <1992Sep15.034305.29644@trl.oz.au> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:
-
- >From article <crystal.716447070@glia>, by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal):
- >>
- >> I really am having MUCHOS problems trying to upload to my unix host. I've
- >> tried the host = server, I've tried kermit -r, and all sorts of permutations,
- >> and I STILL get transmission errors. I am using XPR-Kermit with the latest
- >> version of C-Kermit (it is my only option) and the connection is at 1200 baud.
-
- >What have you set for the handshake? Xon/Xoff should work.
-
- Yes, XON/XOFF is set.
-
- >If you have that and still get trouble, then it is at the host end, and
- >you will need to curry favour with the administrator. Pay particular
-
- He doesn't do kermit. In fact, he sent a person to ME to explain how to get
- it to work once he saw I was using it frequently!!! (Other person is not an
- Amigoid...and the only Amigoid on our machine doesn't bother with downloading)
-
- >attention the 7/8 bits and parity - some systems set these differently
- >upon connection, depending on the initial character sent, and if you
- >connect via a server, _it_ may have a different view of things compared
- >to the unix stty's.
-
- I'm set at 8N1. This has been used successfully with both my Ami and my dog
- clone, but I will change to 7n1 and see how that effects uploading. Thanks
- for the tip here! :>
- >
- >> But the one thing that is *really* getting annoying, is that VLT seems to
- >> insist on sending my PATH to the unix machine.
- >>
- >> I use the requestor, but if my file is on the RAM DISK, it appears on glia
- >> as RAM DISK:filename (and Unix will not allow me to rename or FTP THAT at
- >> all because of the space). I HAVE gotten error-free transmissions, but I
- >> can't DO anything with them once they appear on unix thanks to the path
- >> being sent. :<
-
- >XPRkermit is brain-dead wrt paths. cd to Ram Disk: _before_ starting
- >VLT, so that there is no path sent. Using the default directory command
- >in VLT doesn't help.
-
- Hmmm....fascinating concept! Thanks! :>
-
- >
- >Allan Duncan ACSnet a.duncan@trl.oz
- >(+613) 253 6708 Internet a.duncan@trl.oz.au
- > UUCP {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!a.duncan
- >Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
-