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From: drew@58392.dec.com (Steve Drew)
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Subject: Re: Dave Weckers VT100 (kermit)
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 12:43:16 EDT
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In regards to VT100 (Dave Weckers) Dan Wallach writes:
> etc.  So that a small program d/uload will scroll everything off the screen.
> Now the kermit is fantastic!  I used it with a Fido system and everything
> worked fine.  There's a status line on the bottom (ala Wombat Term) and it
> supposedly supports multi-file transfer. I don't know about that.  Either I
> did it wrong or it doesn't work.  I told FIDO:
> download
> prototol?  kermit
> filename?  sailfont.doc,sailfont.asm
> Ready to send sailfont.doc sailfont.asm
> Locally I chose Kermit Receive (you got send, receive, get, bye)
> File: sailfont.doc,sailfont.asm
>
> And it proceded to download the doc file, after 16 blocks though, it failed.
> The second file failed completely without a single block.
> The problem was though, the machine had one of my most favorite crash types:
> THE SILENT CRASH - everything freezes but the status light is still bright and
> there's no Software Error - Task Held AutoRequest anywhere!
> I'm a newcommer to KERMIT so I'm probably doing something wrong.  Anyone care
> to enlighten?
> Now I gotta brace myself for the deluge of mail...
>  
> Dan Wallach

As the hacker of the kermit.c module of Dave's program let me say that although
the kermit supports multi-file transfers, it is for SEND/GET only and assumes
the host is running as a server. So to upload 2 files on the amiga select
    GET
    File: sailfont.doc,sailfont.asm
Kermit (VT100) will now ask the server for these files.

As a note I have just finished adding  full wild card support, better:
multi-file transfers, error recovery, and error reporting. I'll get this code
to Dave, so possibly a 2.1 release? And with this version it will handle the
above precedure you decscribed in the receive mode.

If Dave approves I've also added a Utility menu for: Send Break, Change Dir 
(so that all files come and go to where you want them to.). I'd also like
to add Hang Up routine but I can't find any mention in the manuals on how to
Drop DTR on the Serial port. Any suggestions on how to do this ???

Thanks again to Dave Wecker.

Steve Drew.

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