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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using Procomm's Kermit file xfer
Keywords: Procomm, Kermit
Message-ID: <1778@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 10:14:29 GMT
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Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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scottb@ogccse.ogc.edu (Scott Baker) writes:

>I use kermit to login to a Vax running UNIX.  I have not been able
>to get the Kermit protocol to work to transfer files.  I suspect that
>I don't have the Kermit parameters in the Alt-S menu set correctly.

Procomm's implementation of Kermit will *only* work if you are running
8-N-1. You'll have to start the send or receive on the Vax, and then use
Alt-P to switch to 8-n-1 and *then* start the upload or download. After
the xfer, use Alt-p to switch bach to your old parameters.
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