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From: rich@VAXKILLER.AGI.ORG (Richard E. Showalter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: kermit problems
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Date: 14 May 91 23:07:07 GMT
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I am also having a problem with kermit 5A on the NeXT.  It seems that  
if I am logged in as root (I know this is not a good thing) or if I  
am logged in a a user (a good thing) I can not send or recieve files  
using kermit to a MacII hooked to one of the serial ports and using  
Versaterm as a VT100 terminal.  But, if I log in as another user  
which happens to have its home dir on an external disk drive Kermit  
works fine.  The only thing similar about the root account and the  
first user account is that both home directories are on the internal  
drive.  Does this make sense?  It doesn't seem to affect any other  
user account that I have so I have not been too upset about it but  
maybe it is a bug that others should be made aware of.

Rich Showalter
SysAdmin
Agouron Institute
rich@vaxkiller.agi.org