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From: pdcst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick D. Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix and Kermit
Message-ID: <20103@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 03:21:50 GMT
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In article <89100422391183@masnet.uucp> jose.dias@canremote.uucp (JOSE DIAS) writes:
>>From: ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard  Ferris)
>
>>I have been trying to do file transfers from my school's mainframe
>>to my PC by modem using the Kermit in Telix.  I have been successful
>>in text mode but I can't get it to transfer in binary mode.  I have
>>set Telix in binary mode and I set the mainframe kermit to binary
>>mode also.  I have done this identical procedure and been successful
>>using the Kermit in Procomm.  Any ideas.  Thanks.
>
>This is a known problem with Telix V3.11.  Colin says that this and
>many other bugs will be removed in the next release of Telix.  The
>next release of Telix, or V3.12, will be out in July 89 (grin:-).
>Sigh....


Actually, Telix is the only program that I have been able to use that 
successfully transfers in kermit in binary on my home modem.  MS-KERM 2.32a
works fine at school on PC's connected to the VAXes vi DecServers, but it
will randomly fail a file transfer from home.

	Only Telix worked for me.  Maybe it is the fact that one can set
more options concerning flow control, carrier detect, DSR and what not.  
I am not sure, do you have any idea?  I gave up on Procomm and MS-KERM2.32a 
because of this program and now only use Telix.

	However, writing this letter in VI has show up a problem with Telix.
When I move my cursor to the left, it blanks out the characters on the screen,
and when I move back to the right (in control mode) the letters reappear.
Also, Sometimes when I insert a line with the o or O command, a blank line is
not created on the screen, even everything is fine in the file.  As a result,
I have had to hit Control L several times in the editing of this letter in
order to see the true appearance of the file.  Is this a known bug, or do 
I have some option set wrongly?  I am in VT102 mode..


Patrick Champion			My views are only my own.
University of Pittsburgh
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