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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: xmodem->versaterm at 1200
Message-ID: <4235@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 13:57:40 GMT
References: <10780@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <4250@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 29
Keywords: kermit, unix, vms, etc.

In article <4250@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
|In article <10780@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU| flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
||I'm having problems with downloading files using unix xmodem at
||1200baud, with versaterm on the mac.  If I have a 9600baud link, it
||works fine with versaterm set for text xmodem.  However, at 1200baud
||(home line), the download never starts, and after a while I get an
||error message.  Kermit sends however work fine at this speed.  Does
|
|I have a related problem.  A few weeks ago, Kermit became unuseable from the
|UNIX system I've access to.  I'm using a Mac+ & VersaTerm PRO.  I've also
|tried other copies of VT PRO, and copies of VersaaTerm.  None of them work
|with the UNIX system.  They do work, however, w/ a VMS system here, and did
|work w/ a now defunct HP-UX system.  The Unix system is running C-Kermit.

1) The basic (non-graphics) portions of VT 3.1 and VT-PRO 2.1 are identical.
2) I use xmodem (via mac{put,get} or umodem) on UNIX(R) SVR2 at 9600 and at
   1200, and have had no problems (except noisy lines and such).
3) (I don't use Kermit)
4) VT seems to be a VERY solid product; I suspect that the above problems are
   related to either VT parameter setup problems or, more likely, host system
   software changes or porting issues.  The 1200 baud one might even be a
   modem or stty-type problem.

On the UNIX side, macput and macget are pretty widely available and use
xmodem protocol.  I would suggest this as a starting point with some plain
text files and progress from there.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."