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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Kermit output needs I/O redirected on CoCo 3
Keywords: Kermit, CoCo 3
Message-ID: <4073@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 90 02:39:19 GMT
References: <514@ctycal.UUCP>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <514@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes:
>I use Kermit on my CoCo 3, but find an interesting quirk.  The
>version of Kermit is one I compiled on my original CoCo under
>OS9 level 1.  Under level 2, everything works fine except that
>I have to start kermit with the command:
>
>  kermit cl /M1 >/w7
>
>where /w7 is the window I'm using.  If I don't redirect the
>output then it goes nowhere.  I brought up level 2 OS9 with
>a 32 column window and found that the output naturally
>seems to end up at that window.

Hmmm.  At first, I thought you were wanting to invoke it from a window
other than the one you wanted it to run in, in which case you would want

	kermit cl /m1 <>>>/w7

but you say that you're already in /w7.  Believe me, the versions of
Kermit for OS-9/6809 that I've seen do absolutely nothing that depends
on being run in a particular window, and I think for that matter that
it doesn't bother to open or reopen any of the three standard paths.
(Brief pause while examining source in another window.)

This problem has never happened to me; in fact, I'm dialed up from home
with Kermit in connect mode in one window, and in another window I have
Kermit in connect mode talking via a serial port to a VME bus system.
(Yet another examination--I don't see any opening, other than that of
the comm path if it is explicitly specified.)

Could you let me know what version of the source you're using?  Comments
in os9ker.c should be of help.

	James Jones