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From: nelson@ (Matt Nelson)
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Subject: Re: kermit woes
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Date: 20 Sep 90 19:37:02 GMT
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In article <15474@shlump.nac.dec.com> edp@ipl31.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.)) writes:
>I also kept getting a protocol error, using VMS Kermit.  I switched to C Kermit,
>and that went away; I can do ASCII transfers easily, although binary transfers
>still fail, probably because C Kermit insists upon sending the length of the VMS
>file used to store the binary object, rather than the length it originally
>received from the 48.
>
>Try other Kermits (as well as the suggestion another poster made to try 7-bit
>mode).  If you can't find a version that works, send me mail; I'll see if I can
>get a version of C Kermit to you.
>
>
>				-- edp

  i know this might sound like an ignorant question, but lets face it...
  i'm ignorant.  here goes...

  how does one get into '7-bit mode' on kermit-32?  will this confuse the 48?

  thanx.   matt