Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit on ][+ w/AppleCat
Message-ID: <8117@reed.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 20:33:42 GMT
References: <8040@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
Lines: 29
Keywords: Kermit AppleCat // ][+


If anyone (this includes *you*, Ted!) can give me specifications for a modem
driver for Kermit, I will write one.  I have all the sources to the Cat
drivers for DCOM in a nice bundle, ready to be adapted to other things. . .

Basically, I need to know:

A) Where it goes and how long it can be

B) What are it's responsibilities.

C) If and how interrupts are handled. . .

	I should point out that my Cat drivers do use interrupts for dialing
the phone.  This *might* be a problem, but I think not really. But if I go
to ProDOS, with it's rather large overhead for interrupts, and it's
interrupt vector stuff, it can be a bit of a headache. For now I grab the
vector at $3F? and put my own there, and call it if the interrupt was not my
own.  Viola, my own interrupt series, and I don't have to walk through a
list of vectors asking if it's "theirs" like ProDOS does.  

D) anything else one needs to know about it.

Sean Kamath
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