Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!think!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Kermit Message-ID: <8805301042.aa23259@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 30 May 88 15:24:46 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 >Yes, I was using SET FLOW XON. I tried sending an XON after it locked up and >it had no effect. I then SET FLOW OFF and not only did that cure the lockup >problem, but it also got rid of all of the noise! >How about an explanation of the SET FLOW command (seeing as there isn't any >updated documentation available)? I would guess thats its only needed when >saving a LOG file to disk.(??) Mea culpa. I should have remembered. Hosts which don't explicitly use XON/XOFF flow control (even if they DO recognize XOFF) may have a problem with Kermit-65 if FLOW is XON/XOFF (because Kermit sends XON when it's ready to receive, and a host which doesn't use XON for flow control may respond to it as a character). For some reason, a Commodore BBS near here reacts to those XON's as if they were random characters; whatever response the BBS decides to generate elicits yet another XON from Kermit and the thing runs amok. On a host that DOES use flow control (most mainframes) and which will send characters (screen pages) while receiving input into a "type ahead" buffer Kermit's XON/XOFF prevents loss of characters at speeds of 1200 baud and up. The most recent documentation (for version 3.81 dated December '87) covers the FLOW command and nearly all the other features of version 3.83 (exceptions are SET PROTOCOL, TAKE, and k-esc,E). Those docs are available from KERMSERV@CUVMA (APPLE.DOC) or by anonymous ftp from cu20b.columbia.edu --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut