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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Kermit Help
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 14:47:55 EDT
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>I find that the packets from C-Kermit are somewhat different.
>Kermit-MS and C-Kermit just throw away each other's packets.
>Can anyone offer some constructive advice ?

There is a Tower of Babel problem with Kermit.  Some versions default
to 8 bit transfers over the serial line and others default to 7 bit
transfers and use 8th bit quoting.  They are in fact two separate
protocols that just happen to be called Kermit!

The C-Kermit on Xenix works just fine with the Kermit part of
Professional-YAM, which works just fine with Kermit on The Source and
IBM mainframes.  But, MS-Kermit needs to be set into some other mode to
talk to THEM.

The solution is to get both ends working the same way.  Sorry I can't
remember what the incantation was, but it does work (I used MS-Kermit
in testing Pro-YAM's Kermit initially.)

For transferring files between Unix and MS-DOS, Pro-YAM on the PC or
clone and rb/sb on Unix make a much better combination.  They can use
19200 bps and/or 1kb packets for good throughput when downloading from
Unix.
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