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From: jobrien@nixbur.UUCP (John O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: the "Transparency" of MNP...
Summary: I couldn't use kermit protocol, either
Message-ID: <715@nixbur.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 23:35:59 GMT
References: <89Dec4.212759est.57389@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <560@junkyard.UUCP>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer Engineering Corporation, Burlington, MA
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one other "non-transparent" feature I noticed with MNP is what happened
when I tried to do a kermit file transfer.  The reason I was using kermit
was that I was transferring a large number of files and I didn't want to
have to type in all those file names.  When I tried to do the transfer,
the modem locked up and had to be reset.  The problem was that kermit uses
^a (ctrl-a) as a packet header, and MNP uses ^a for something, too.  When
I set the start of packet header to ^b instead, the transfer worked, although
it was slower than straight text transfer.  Is there any software file trans-
fer protocol that works with MNP?

				John F. O'Brien