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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: C-Kermit and the ATE
Message-ID: <339@manta.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 07:23:49 GMT
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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Two items of information for y'all.  First, I've seen a lengthy bug
report in Info-Kermit complaining that the UNIXpc OBM support code is
no good (doesn't compile, doesn't work write have being hacked into a
compilable state, etc.).  So I wouldn't go running out to replace your
copy of K. O'Gorman's C-Kermit port with the latest version from
Columbia.

Second, for those of you who've thought, "gee, I never use the
Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (ATE) package, perhaps I'll just
remove it", I discovered today that the ATE package *must* be
installed in order for O'Gorman's C-Kermit to work.  At least, the ate
driver must be installed; I think the utilities and fonts can be
scrapped.  Without the ate driver in place, kermit fails in its
attempt to open up the ph device.
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant