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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit 3.84 easy-install on GS
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Date: 30 Aug 88 02:04:19 GMT
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>Has anybody gotten the 3.84 easy install to work on a GS?  ('Boy', you ask,
>'doesn't this guy ever write in with anything besides problems?'  Rarely.)

Alan Stein <STEIN@UCONNVM> for sure.  Probably LOTS of others.  Maybe
Alan can give you a clue.

1) Works ONLY under DOS 3.3
2) tends to crash unless files are in contiguous sectors
   (hence write KER384.1 and KER384.2 onto a freshly formatted disk).

Why, I wonder, does it work EVERY time for me (on an unenhanced //e or a //c)?
)<must be Irish luck> :-)

>What happens when I try it (and this has happened on every version I've ever
>tried the easy-install with) is that it runs for a short while, giving the
>introductory messages, and unpacking two device drivers.  Then suddenly I
>get a series of about 8 beeps, and a backslash.  This will continue for as
>long as I will allow it.  It's almost as if I'm in applesoft and have entered
>a line too long.

I take it you DO use an older version of Kermit to download the EZ Install?
The EZ install does NOT like LF characters (^J's) or padded (extra blanks or
nulls) lines.

Larry Virden has downloaded to ProDOS and used CONVERT to translate to
DOS 3.3, and the EZ Install has crashed.  Try downloading with a DOS 3.3
version of your older Kermit directly onto a DOS 3.3 disk.


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