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From: steven@BRL-TBD.ARPA (Steven Segletes)
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Subject: Kermit Through a TAC
Message-ID: <8512261814.AA01567@mitre.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 09:47:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 09:47:42 1985
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There has been mention on the net recently of the difficulty of using kermit
through a TAC.  The problem can be circumvented by disabling the interception
of the `@' character.  Of course, this disables the (re)programming of the TAC
port until you log out and log back onto the TAC.  The procedure is

@b i s
@b o s

These two commands to the TAC request binary input and output to the port,
thus preventing the interception of any characters as special characters.

Steve Segletes
U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5066

<steven@brl.arpa>

p.s. the order in which the two commands are issued is important.  Using the
wrong order will result in the second command being passed through to the host
system.  It is possible that I have specified the wrong order above (I haven't
used this feature in a while), but it should be immediately obvious if I did.