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From: fac@burdvax.UUCP (Frank Cooley)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: HELP with ProComm 2.3 problems please!
Message-ID: <2626@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 08:57:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 29 08:57:11 1986
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> In article <2012@sdcsvax.UUCP> rick@sdcsvax.UUCP (Rick Randall) writes:
>>In article <216@octopus.UUCP> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>>>I grabbed a copy of ProComm 2.3 several days ago. It seems like a very nice
>>>program, but also rather buggy. It has a *very* annoying tendency to lock
>>>up completely, and has trouble with terminal emulations. Has anybody else
>>>had and/or solved these problems?
>>>
>>>	- Alt-S (setup) locks up an AT every time (IBM and clone. A second
>>>		clone didn't have trouble)
>>>	- Kermit transfers tend to get locked up
>>>	- It frequently locks up when you aren't receiving anything (goes
>>>		into a receive loop at the wrong time?)
>>>  ...
>>
>>Never had any of these problems on my PC or on my Orchid 286e
>>expansion board (like an AT on the PC).  Procomm 2.3 has worked
>>beautifully by and large -- definitely the best PD comm program
>>I've found.  Sorry about your problems -- and I can't suggest
>>remedies;  perhaps you should register and then ask for support
>>from the author(s).
> 
> The only Procomm problem I've encountered is the inability to Kermit to/from
> Vax UNIX. Anyone know the correct parameters?
>   
> 
> 
> Jon Meltzer
> Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Disclaimer" is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
You have to set the kermit type parameter correctly to either
binary or text.
If you do this you should have no trouble, I have scripts which call
up kermit and set the type depending on what type of file I want to 
download and this works fine.

Frank Cooley