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From: barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Edwin Barkdoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using Procomm's Kermit file xfer
Keywords: Procomm, Kermit
Message-ID: <2103@cattell.psych.upenn.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 14:52:29 GMT
References: <5844@ogccse.ogc.edu> <1778@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu.UUCP (Edwin Barkdoll)
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In article <1778@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>[...]
>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.
>[...] 
>Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard

	Fooey.  I use Procomm with E-7-1 all the time to send/receive
files between an AT compatible and a VAX.  (I am not connected to the
VAX via Kermit in this case as was the original poster).

	However when I use Kermit to _connect_ to a host computer such as
when I send files between an AT and a DEC PDP 11/23 (the AT's running ProComm 
in host mode) then only setting that I've that found to work is N-8-1.

	I don't know why there is the difference in what ProComm
tolerates (i assume the problem is with ProComm) between CONNECT mode
and a simple SEND/RECEIVE.  I never did manage to send/receive files
between the PDP11/23 and the AT except when using the HOST mode in ProComm.


Edwin Barkdoll
barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu