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From: early@3988.dec.com (Robert W. Early)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: VMS to PC file transfer, etc question
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Date: 11 Jan 91 17:48:43 GMT
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In article <5595@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, brada@bardlover.Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Albom) writes...
>Hi-
> 
>I need to transfer data files over phone lines from a
>DEC VAX/VMS to an IBM PC/DOS environment. The DOS end

LCTERM, which  is a variation on KERMIT, comes with sample script
files which describe how this may be done.

The latest KERMIT package from Digital Press, which is a book and a PCdos
floppy disk (about $15.00+postage) claims to be able to do this,
but so far I've only used LCTERM.

However, some business  groups DO NOT WANT their emplyees using automated
processes with their computer systems (some companies have 'firable' rules
regarding the placing of system access command in script files (security
and all that stuff).

>Can kermit be caused to dial out, initiate a seesion,
>transfer a file & wrap up from a single command line
>or batch file or does it require human intervention at some

Kermit claims it not only can do this, but can actually run itself on 
during a certain time window (lets say: from 9:32 pm to 10:05 pm),
and makes itself unavailable for logins at all other times.

Both LCTERM, Kermit, cpm/Kermit DOS/Kermit all seem fully compatible
with VMS KERMIT32.

You need to be careful about VMS - VMS Kermit or DOS to DOS Kermit,
because the default for "local" and "remote" terminal disconnects is excatly 
the same, and can cause a lot of grief by having both ends going into 
"server" mode or "local" mode. It causes the modem to hang, because during this
operation DTR is held hiugh by the software at both ends. And although
you can get one end to drop by releaseing the DATA/TALK switch, the other 
end is a bit tricky (unless there's an alternate dial up path, and you
can attach to that process.

RobertW

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