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From: dennis@tifsie.UUCP (Dennis Draheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: kermit EZ install, Z-link
Message-ID: <574@tifsie.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 16:39:49 GMT
References: <8901132130.aa01425@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: TI Process Automation Center, Dallas Texas
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in article <8901132130.aa01425@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET says:
> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARRA commented that he had no trouble with the EZ Install
> even though he downloaded Kermit under prodos.  The key was that he used
> Copy II+ to move it to DOS 3.3.  CONVERT quite commonly messes up on text
> files as big as those in Kermit.  What's more, the VIEW option under Copy
> II+ actually lets you read the EZ Install directions ! (they are at the
> beginning of KER384.1).

Thanks, everyone, for posting these solutions.  I had been going crazy
trying to unpack Kermit 3.85 for a week until I found out that the
conversion utils didn't change the hi bit between ProDOS and DOS3.3.
I now have Kermit working under DOS on my //c.  Just one problem,
though.  I'd like it under ProDOS, but when I try to use the //c
System Utilities (which I believe is the equivalent of CONVERT on a
//e) to copy the file KERMIT385 from DOS to ProDOS, it garbages my
screen and dumps me into the monitor halfway through the copy.  Has
anyone else seen this, and is there a way to fix the problem (preferably
w/o spending much $$)?  I don't have Copy II+, obviously.

Second:  I recently got Z-link from LISTSERV.  It came as 2 EXECUTIONER
files, which I successfully EXEC'ed under ProDOS to create a file 
Z.LINK.BNY, 93 blocks, loads at A$2000, and a second file Z.LINK.BN1,
which I believe was a temp file and is no longer needed.  When I try to
BRUN Z.LINK.BNY, though, I get a NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE error, which I read
somewhere means that it would overwrite part of ProDOS if I loaded the file.
Anyone know how to get past this?  There was no documentation with Z-link.

Thanks a bunch,

Dennis
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