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From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Problems with kermit
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.163542.788@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 90 22:35:42 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.010147.15990@shell.shell.com>
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Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
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In article <1990Nov28.010147.15990@shell.shell.com>, got@medusa (Gordon Tillman PFGotM) writes:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have an '030, Version 1.0 cube.  I recently downloaded the source for
> kermit (a very laborious process).  I build it using the command
> 'make bsd', which looked like the best option for the NeXT.
> 
> I can receive files with it and can use the 'remote host' commands just
> fine.  Whenever I try to send files with it, I get a 'Bus error'.  Kermit
> exits back to the cshell.  
> 
> Does anyone know what that error might signify?

Due to a minor error in the Kermit source, the send command does die with a Bus
error.  It turns out that the author accidentially referenced a null pointer. 
It has been more than six months since I tracked it down, so I can't remember
the exact details, except that it was an easy fix.  My clue was that "send"
worked correctly on a 68010 UNIX system we had, but not the NeXT.  I can send
you a working copy of kermit and the source if you would like.  Let me know.  I
will put a copy of the working executable in the anonymous FTP account on
FTP.GAC.EDU.  The source is on an optical disk in my office, so I can't do
anything with it now.  Let me know if you are interested.

-- 
Dan Boehlke                    Internet:  dan@gac.edu
Campus Network Manager         BITNET:    dan@gacvax1.bitnet
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN 56082 USA        Phone:     (507)931-7596