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From: w-ronra@microsoft.UUCP (Ron RADKO)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Kermit Direct Connect under OS/2
Message-ID: <58157@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 90 18:18:15 GMT
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Reply-To: w-ronra@microsoft.UUCP (Ron RADKO)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>Ok, here's a simple question:  I run a cable from the serial port to my
>hp48sx and invoke Kermit under OS/2.  I put the calculator in server
>mode.  I "send generic.48" from the computer -- and it hangs the Kermit.
>I've tried both full screen and PM, and this only happens under the OS/2
>edition -- DOS works fine.  (Not the DOS-BOX, mind you, which chokes 
>terribly).  I'm running 9600 from both ports, 8-None-binary, etc.  Any
>advice?  I figured that maybe I'd get more OS/2 specific help here than
>in misc.handhelds, since this is probably a really OS/2 specific thing...
>thanks...

Hmm.  I just received my latest version of OS/2 for a Toshiba.  Gee there's 
a little note with it.  It says:  do not attempt to run such programs as 
lap link and cross talk from the dos compatibility box.  I guess that's 
why Boyan and cross talk and even the windows terminal program that I tried
running failed.  I've come accross the same problem needless to say, as
I use the com port to transfer files from 5.25 inch floppies.  Anyways, 
the only two solutions that I have found are to either boot DOS if you want
to use any standard protocols, or to use the OS/2 terminal program if you
want to transfer just ASCII.  If anyone else has come up with some solutions,
or knows what is causing the problem, I would love to hear about them.  
I'm currently looking into writing a terminal program for OS/2 that will
allow standard protocol transfer.  But, it'll be awhile before it's 
completed.

Ron Radko