Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Kermit and zlink pose problems Message-ID: <8901271059.aa18613@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Jan 89 06:28:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 45 >well, i also encountered problems with those files from .binaries: >kermit execs fine, but when i brun the thing it reads the first command >from kermit.init then wants the next, but the next prompt looks like >KERMIT-65>\ where the '\' is inverse, and then everything comes to a halt. Try editing KERMIT.INIT with a word processor see if it's got something peculiar in it. To tell the truth, I haven't used the KERMIT.INIT that unpacks with Kermit since maybe version 3.79. I have a few extra things in mine (like SET PARITY EVEN) so I always toss out whatever the EZ INSTALL makes and use my old one. You can RENAME the KERMIT.INIT to something else (KERMIT.INI for instance). When you BRUN KERMIT385 you should get a message that the INIT file wasn't found and end up at the prompt. Try TYPE KERMIT.INI (or whatever you renamed the file) and see if it reads ok. You can SET whatever you need to by hand (you can get a crash if the INIT file thinks the serial port or 80 column card are somewhere other than indicated) and CONNECT (that at least should tell you if the program's ok and the INIT file simply bunged up somehow. >now for z-link: the first file is 96Kbytes which seems a bit too big, anyway Somehow you seem to have concatonated the TWO files into one. I haven't gone to the trouble of an exact byte count (I deleted the downloaded versions to make room to unpack the BNY file after I'd got it created -- a hazard of working on 5.25" disks :-), but my host says each of the two parts takes 13 4K blocks (max of 52K each file). >what made me suspicious then was that BOTH files had the same commands at the >end ! (bsave z.link.bn1,a$1000,l$c500e00gbload >z.link.bn1,a$2000 >bsave z.link.bny,a$2000,l$5c00,b$5c00) Someone else has already posted a correct interpretation of what the code at the end of the 2nd Z.LINK is SUPPOSED to do (did for me, 'tho I did have a "Syntax Error" before the final BSAVE -- worked anyway). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246