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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: IS KERMIT3.85 USABLE WITH A GS?
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Date: 20 Jul 89 14:30:37 GMT
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>>Kermit 3.85 won't accept input from the GS keyboard........
>
> Jeff,
>  I beleive you will have to build Kermit on your GS. Go back through the
>process of execing it but set everything up for the GS. If you have the
>.Install file you can just exec it on your GS and set everything accordingly.

One way of having pretty strange problems is:

BRUN KERMIT385
QUIT to APPLESOFT
EXEC KER385.INSTALL

and try to BRUN KERMIT385 on a system with different ROM's (even a //c,
for instance, with an upgrade of the ROMs compared to the //c the INSTALL
was done on).

When KERMIT-65 is BRUN it picks up some ROM code from the system it's on.
If that's the problem, then the only solution is to go back to the EZ Install
EXEC's and start from the beginning.

It IS possible to re-install KERMIT-65 for another Apple system, *** BUT ***
it --> MUST  <-- be done by:

From Applesoft:

BLOAD KERMIT385
EXEC KER385.INSTALL

The BLOAD prevents BSAVEing unwanted (system dependent) ROM code with the
altered KERMIT385.

It IS possible to change the serial driver under ProDOS, but the .INSTALL
exec doesn't work, so you have to do it all by hand (a challenge to your
"manhood" <or its generic equivalent :->).

BLOAD KERMIT385
EXEC KER385.xxx (where 'xxx' is the serial driver wanted)
BSAVE KERMIT385,A$1000,L$6E00

You may also have to edit the KERMIT.INIT text file (I'm told that it CAN
be down with AppleWorks *but* you have to take care that the saved file
is an ASCII .TXT file, and not an Appleworks filetype).

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