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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Boerjeson @ KTH/LNE, The Royal Inst. of Tech.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: kermit woes
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Date: 20 Sep 90 08:14:00 GMT
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In article <26F7A7B7.8651@orion.oac.uci.edu>, nelson@ (Matt Nelson) writes:
>
>  ok, im getting a little discouraged.  i have been trying to get the 48sx
>kermit to work with our VAX/VMS system, and have found that i can do all of
>the 48->VAX transfers i want to, but as soon as i try a VAX->48, i get a
>'protocol error' from the VAX.  i tried calling the HP calculator support
>number, but the people on the other side had never heard of a 'vax' or a 
>'vms' (!); i.e. they were no help.  surely there is somebody out there who
>can help me!  by the way, i have tried transfers on our DECstation ultrix
>machine, and dont even get THAT far; after ~2 packets, it retries until it
>dies.
>  i have kermitted many hundreds of megabytes in the last half-decade or so,
>and have never seen these types of problems.  the worst part is that i/o is
>one of the few reasons i did the 28s->48sx upgrade!
>
>  as usual, much thanx in advance for any help...   -matt 
>                                                     nelson@psroot.ps.uci.edu

If you are using KERMIT-32 there is an error in the negotiation of the
8-bit quote character. I have a working version, but if you want it you
must mail me and tell me in what version you would like to have the patch
(Bliss source, Macro source, or binaries (in what form?)) You can work around
the problem by using 7-bit transfer mode.

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