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From: costello@eplrx7.uucp (Tim Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thanks (and...)
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.152241.6896@eplrx7.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 89 15:22:41 GMT
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From article <3261@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, by conca@handel.cs.colostate.edu (michael vincen conca):
>      I was also wondering if I could get help in another area. I can't seem
> to get Kermit to work.  I am trying to download a file from a Unix system
> (using Sys V).  So far, I have tried the following:
> 		  I get into kermit interactive mode.
> 		  I type 'set file type binary'
> 		  Type 'send file.test'  (this is an Amiga executable)
> 		  Set VLT's kermit option of packet size to 90
> 		     (this is what kermit on the unix end lists as
> 		      packet length when I type 'show')
> 		  Click on receive
> 
>      The download window pops up and then it just counts errors up until
> 5, at which point the Amiga guru's (this may be an error in VLT).

	Hmm, I wonder if this is somehow related.  I ususally use Kermit,
from a Sun Unix box, in server mode.  The transfers go fine ( I also use
long packets...much faster.  Type 'set send(receive) packet 1000' before
'send' or 'server').  However, while in server mode, if you ask for a file
name ala wildcard, as in 'get *.pic' and a translation of this file name does
exist on the server side, say the file is actually '*.pic1', the latest
VLT, v4.226 will guru.  Older versions do not.

	By the way, Kermit is set up so that the receiving Kermit will
(or should anyway) determine the packet size.  Tho' with the large packet
implementations I've not always found this to be the case.

> 
>      If you can find anything I am doing wrong or have any suggestions,
> please let me know.  I really need the ability to download from this sys-
> tem and it only supports kermit (which is one of the main reasons I got
> VLT). Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
> 

	On one of the menus there is a setting for bit-8 masking or some such
item.  Experiment with that to make sure some artificial parity error is not
interfering.

> 				     -Mike
> 
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> Mike Conca, Computer Science Dept.   *  conca@handel.cs.colostate.edu
> Colorado State University            *  conca@129.82.102.32                   
>                  'Back off man - I understand computers!'

Tim
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