Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix!mpsimon From: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What Kermit/UNITERM bugs? Message-ID: <12091@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 89 21:32:12 GMT References: <2748@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <89337.135453SML108@PSUVM.BITNET> <1333@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 37 In article <1333@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes: >In article <89337.135453SML108@PSUVM.BITNET> SML108@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >>On the subject of kermits and ST's... >> >>I also use the Uniterm Kermit to transfer to and from my ST.it works fine wit >>h VAX computer systems, however weird, VERY WEIRD stuff happens with Unixsys- >>tems, both System V and 4.3bsd. It works fine transferring text files, but >>gives a potpourri of errors with binary files. This DOES NOT HAPPEN ON VAXES >[stuff deleted] > >Strange, I've downloaded loads of stuff from a Sys V UNIX machine and it >always works fine - the only time it doesn't is when I forget to set the >'-i' option on the UNIX kermit (for binary mode transfer). There's maybe >something wrong with your UNIX kermit (although I have heard of some >sort of bug in Uniterm's Kermit but it always works OK for me)... > >>Scott Le Grand aka SML108@PSUVM.PSU.EDU > >Mark Davidson I have also had difficulties with Kermit in Uniterm (v2.0b). Downloading works fine, even in binary mode, but uploading does not work fine if there is a communication server present (e.g. something that forces kermit to use 8th bit prefixing, or whatever that's called). I know this is a bug in Uniterm's implementation of kermit because another kermit I have for the ST will do those same uploads correctly. From the discussion here, it does not sound as if this bug has been fixed in later versions. --Patrick Simon mpsimon@phoenix.princeton.edu p.s. I had even more difficulties with transfer until I set the Unix end kermit's parity correctly. This can be done in the kermit initialization file, so you don't need to check it each time. p.p.s. I use uniterm all the time, and really appreciate the effort Simon Poole has put into this program.