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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble with Telix Kermit
Keywords: Procomm, Telix
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.034517.3207@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 03:45:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jan02.171049.3742@groucho> martyz@ted.cs.uidaho.edu (Marty Zimmerman) writes:
>Telix's version of the Kermit protocol will not
>work on a 7-bit data path.  That is the default comm setup on many mainframes
>(IBM in particular).  If your session is using 7-data bits, Telix will NOT be
>able to do Kermit transfers.

It's possible to install an external protocol into Telix to handle the 
7-bit kermit transfers.  I use the PCKERMIT program; I think I got it from
Simtel.  Installing external protocols is easiest with batch files; here
are mine:

KBSEND.BAT
 :Send a binary file using kermit and even parity
 pckermit -s %3 -l COM%2 -b %1 -p e

KBRECV.BAT
 :receive a binary file using kermit
 pushdir
 d:
 :this cd is necessary so that the file ends up in the DL directory
 cd \bbs
 c:\util\telix\pckermit -r -l COM%2 -b %1 -p e
 popdir