Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!cfchiesa From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: (none) Summary: Kermit65 available and should work. Message-ID: <4178@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 88 08:45:59 GMT References: <8810030427.AA27417@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 55 In article <8810030427.AA27417@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, edi@WISDOM.BITNET (Edi Almer) writes: > I am currently using a term prog which doesnt allow me to emulate any > standard terms. (Amodem) I have noticed that some people on the net are > using a term prog called kermit65. As far as I understand this prog > gices you 80clmns and vt100 emulation. Is this prog shareware ? If so > can some one send it to me or is the rumored atari archive operating > already ? WIll it work on my setup (800xl , 1050 , xm301 ) ? Edi, I think you're going to like this VERY much! Yes, Kermit65 is available; I've sent it to several people already and can probably whip off a set of the relevant files to you with little trouble. The 64-dollar question is, can you pick them out of the Net and onto your Atari successfully? If you're using AMODEM, you can perform XMODEM and text-capture transfer as I recall; forgive me for asking what may seem obvious, but I've seen problems in this department: does your Net host system support XMODEM? How about "uudecode"? "Zoo" archiving? I'd want to send you a UUencoded Zoo archive containing the relevant Kermit65 files or, at the very least, a UUencoded binary of each individual file. Anyway, your information is correct: Kermit65 gives you 80 columns, driven in either a GR.8-emulated 80-cols-at-once mode (a little hard to read at first but you get used to it) or a scrollable 40-columns-at-a-time "windowed" mode, plus emulates either a VT52 or VT100 (very nicely, I might add) or "dumb TTY", in addition to Kermit file-transfer. I ought to point out, though, that it does *NOT* perform any OTHER form of file-transfer, i.e. XMODEM or any of its family, nor text-capture. Nor can you "print screen" from within a terminal session. But I use it exclusively when talking to our University's VMS and UNIX mainframes... As for whether it works with your setup, I'm not 100% sure, but am about 90%, that it WILL. There's a special modem handler required -- I think it's "SMARTT.COM," can anyone else doublecheck me on this? -- that makes the XM301 "look like" a Hayes-compatible modem to Kermit65. Or you could invest in an SX212, hehehe... Let me know, via e-mail, which of the utilities (UUdecode, Zoo) you do have available to you, plus make sure you can download BINARY (not just Text) files from your host. If you can do Binary downloads and UUdecoding, I can send 'em to you. (Or, alternately, and I should have thought of this, if you have YAU (Yet Another UUdecoder) on your Atari, you can ASCII-capture the UUencoded files I send you, and decode them on the Atari. That might be easier.) Chris Chiesa Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA Thanx in advance, -Edi -- UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!cfchiesa cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP