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From: carlitz@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert D. Carlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: kermit on the GS
Keywords: kermit GS bell
Message-ID: <50348@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 16:58:55 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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After several days of reading the kermit documentation and experimenting
with various machines, I would like to know if the problem I have solved
is a real one - and if the solution I have found is the only
possibility.  Here's the problem:  I'm running Kermit 3.86 on an Apple
IIGS in VT-100 emulation mode.  When the IIGS receives a BEL character
(CNTRL-G or \007), it drops several of the characters which follow.  The
louder the bell, the more characters that get dropped.  An immediate
symptom (for those of you who may have had a similar experience) is that
when I start up EDT on a VMS system to edit a new file, the bell rings
and only a fraction of the warning "file does not exist" gets displayed
on the screen.  The solution:  use the Control Panel to turn the volume
off, so that only a "visual bell" or screen flash is employed.  Now no
characters are lost, and everything works just fine.  On an Apple IIe
there is no problem of this sort.  Have I missed something obvious in
the operation of the IIGS?  Is this a familiar problem with programs
using the bell on this machine?  Have I made some obvious configuration
error?  I was surprised to find no mention of this problem in the kermit
documentation.  In fact, I suspect I have overlooked something simple
and obvious (or obvious to those to whom it is obvious - certainly not
to me).

Thanks,
Bob Carlitz - carlitz@unix.cis.pitt.edu