Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:12764 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:9611 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!dftsrv!oneel From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: ms-kermit 3.10 in windows 3.0 Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 17:17:03 GMT References: <22733@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa Lines: 114 In article <22733@yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: Having grown discontented with the available Windows comm programs, I've been setting up ms-kermit 3.10 to run under windows 3.0 in 386Enh mode. This works well, even in a small window, (although the PIF distributed with ms-kermit is for Windows 2 (!), and therefore needed revision), except that now and then Kermit decides to drive the comm port through BIOS, resulting in terrible performance. I know that Kermit does this when it finds no comm hardware of the usual type in the right place, so win3 must sometimes be hiding the comm port from Kermit. Does anyone have a solution? //richard One solution is to use the windows version of kermit. Anon FTP from watson.cc.columbia.edu in /kermit/test. Files are called win100.ann win30k.boo winaaa.doc windoc.boo winfon.boo winpic.boo Advantages: Seems nice. Better than terminal, but I haven't tried other terminal emulators. Does seem to run in the background, but I haven't really tested it. Disadvantages: Only kermit file transfer. No scripting. Here is win100.ann WIN100.EXE, a Windows version of Kermit with VT100 and VT52 terminal emulation is available on an experimental basis from the Kermit distribution center. Programs are available for both Windows 2.x and Windows 3.0 and replace the previously released WN100K.EXE. Except for bug fixes, the 2.x version will not receive further enhancements. The 3.0 version will undergo several improvements over the next several months as time permits including the release of all sources when legally possible. Plans include basic server support as well as extensions of the emulation to include VT220 and H19 as well as 8 bit character sets. 4010/4014 support and Telapi support are also planned for the future. Accompanying the programs is a font file suitable for use on VGA displays which allow for proper display of bold characters and DEC special graphics. Here is winaaa.doc (edited (read shortened)) WIN100 William S. Hall 3665 Benton Street, #66 Santa Clara, CA, 95051 Internet address: william@novell.com MCI Mail: wshall WIN100 is a vt100/vt52 terminal emulator with Kermit for Microsoft Windows. Although the program is still undergoing development, the program has enough features to make it quite usable and is being made available to the Kermit distribution network. Source code is not yet available for release. However, eventually both source and binary files will be published. The files contained here replace the previously released WN100K.EXE. The current distribution consists of the following files: 1. WIN1002.BOO - A Windows 2.x version of the program which has also been marked to run in Windows 3.0. Use MSBPCT (available from the Kermit distribution center) to recover the executable WIN100.EXE. Run this program only if you do not yet have Windows 3.0. Except for bug fixes, this program will not receive further development. 2. WN1003.BOO - A Windows 3.0 version of the program. Use MSBPCT to obtain the executable WIN100.EXE. 3. WIN100D.BOO - Documentation in Windows Write for WIN100. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100.WRI. This file was formatted for an HP LaserJet printer. You may need to reformat some of the tables if you use some other printer. 4. WN100P.BOO - A Windows Paint file which contains the figures referenced in the documentation. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100.MSP, which can be viewed in either Windows Paint or PaintBrush. 5. WN100F.BOO - A font file for WIN100.EXE which is suitable for VGA displays. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100E.FON. Windows 3.0: Base Version 2.2, 09/24/90. Current Version 2.4, 10/10/90. Fixed problem in Kermit receive which caused the program to enter an infinite loop when decompressing files. Added program icon. Replaced protocol and packets parameter selection list boxes by combo boxes. -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664