Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tellab5!fayne
From: fayne@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Jeffrey Fayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm vs VAX
Message-ID: <1611@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 21 Sep 89 12:59:59 GMT
References: <42900050@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <2517ADEA.28338@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: fayne@tellab5.UUCP (Jeffrey Fayne)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
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In article <2517ADEA.28338@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <42900050@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> look@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>$I am trying to use Procomm v2.4.2 to down-load files from a VAX785 running
>$BSD 4.3 UNiX here to a XT. I am using Kermit on the VAX and attempting to use
>$the Kermit protocol in Procomm with no success. All I get are "exchanging 
>$parameters" and "packet resent" messages until I abort the attempt. I have 
>[...]
>
>   I've never tried picking the Kermit option after PgUp or PgDn.  The way
>I use Kermit on our machine here is to put the Unix machine into kermit
>server mode (our command is kermit, then at kermit's prompt you type server),
>and then use Procomm Plus' Alt-K kermit server (I don't know if 2.4.2 has
>this or not) to send and receive files.  Works like a charm, other than the
>inherent slowness of Kermit ...
>
>-- 
>Stephen M. Dunn                         cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca

    I too have had problems with the built in kermit protocol.  Since we are 
using a voice over data multiplexer link to our VAX, we attributed the problems to the multiplexer port, but seeing someone else with the same problem, it 
looks like Procomm's fault. What we ended up doing is to create two .BAT files,
(one for sending and one for receiving), installed those in Procomm as an 
external protocol file and then used kermit.exe to do all the work.

    kermitr.bat   (receive)
---------------------------------
	kermit set port %2, set baud %1, receive %3 


			Parameters passed from Procomm
		Where:  %1  =  baud rate 
			%2  =  Com: port #
			%3  =  filename to receive


     kermits.bat    (send)
---------------------------------
	kermit send %1

			Parameter passed from Procomm
		Where:	%1  =  filename to send


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