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From: medin@cod.UUCP (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit initialization under ProDOS...
Message-ID: <859@cod.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 13:42:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: cod.859
Posted: Thu Oct  8 13:42:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 09:17:37 EDT
References: <8710021356.aa03194@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: medin@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Ted Medin)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Lines: 26
Keywords: kermit pathname initialization

In article <8710021356.aa03194@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SJDMK@UNO.BITNET writes:
>
>Now for the problem. While using DOS 3.3, everything is fine. When I
>transferred Kermit over to a ProDOS disk I got an error:
>
>PRODOS ERROR & CALL ADDRESS: $40 5010
>INVALID PATHNAME
>
>*** the '$' was inverted.
>
>The only thing I can figure is that Kermit needs to have the prefix set but
>you can't do that since it trys to read the file before you try to set the
>prefix.
>
 Kermit 3.79 does indead get the default prefix if you havent specified
a prefix via the "set prefix ..." command. So with a virgin binary you 
wouldnt have the prefix set. At that point kermit gets the default prefix
and will look for the .init file there. This all worked fine in our testing
until we tried to start kermit via the startup file. The default prefix
is not available from an "exec filename" and i couldnt figure out how to
get the default prefix. However, if you start kermit from the keyboard
then everything works fine. Now if someone knows what the solution to
exec files is please let me know.
 One caveat: i have not tested the above with the easy install so there
may be a bug there. Sigh!
                                              Ted