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From: Barry Bailey
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS-Kermit for MS-Windows 3.0, and TERMINAL...
Message-ID: <9848.4979.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 14:04:00 GMT
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   Currently I am using MS-Kermit v2.x as a DOS window in WIN 3.0. I
   access this group through our campus (PBX) datalines, connected
   through several computers to our mainframe. Kermit has always handled
   the datalines (DTR, HANGUP) flawlessly. However, I can't seem to get
   TERMINAL to work at all. It seems that the program doesn't have the
   capability to raise and lower DTR. I never see prompts from our PBX,
   as I do with Kermit. Anyone have experience using TERMINAL over a
   campus/corporate PBX? (We also have Kermit on our mainframe, for
   Kermit-protocol file transfers).
 
   Recently someone indicated that there was a version of Kermit for
   Windows, distributed from Columbia. I sifted through a dozen or so
   files (TAPE A) only to realize that the Kermit for Windows was
   developed with Heath/Zenith H19 in mind (whatever that is). It
   supports H19 and ANSI terminal types, primarily, and KERMIT transfer
   protocol, secondarily. The documentation mentioned problems with WIN
   2.X COMM driver, whereby you must replace the driver on the
   distribution disk and REINSTALL Windows 2.X. There are problems with
   XON/XOFF protocols as well...
 
   Our system requires VT100 terminal emulation. It also (as above)
   needs to raise and lower DTR. We use XON/XOFF, and I am not phyched
   about reinstalling Windows with a foriegn COMM driver.
 
   Has anyone installed this version of Kermit on their WIN 3.0 system?
   Is it worth it? Is there a WIN 3.0 version of Kermit in the works
   (fully comptible with MS-Kermit, ver. 2.x, not necessarily 3.x)?
 
   thanks in advance