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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: Kermit
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Date: 2 Feb 89 18:23:55 GMT
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>(7) The DOS 3.3 disk was booted on the IIgs and the instruction FP was
>given.  Next the instruction EXEC APP385.1,R25 was given.  In response
>to the screen prompts, the selections of IIgs, emulate VT-100, 80-col
>in slot 3, modem slot 2, and printer slot 1 were made.
>(8) The IIgs tolerates but is not excessively fond of DOS 3.3, so the
>final step was to use COPYII+ again to copy KERMIT385, KERMIT.INIT, and
>KERMIT.HELP to a ProDOS-formatted 3.5" disk already containing PRODOS-8
>v.1.4 and BASIC.SYSTEM v.1.1.  A STARTUP program was written as:
>10 PRINT CHR$(4)"BRUN KERMIT385".  There is no point in copying the
>installer program or the overlays, because the installer will not work
>under ProDOS.

Not so fast!! (see below)

>(9) Step 7 was repeated in order to create another version for an Apple
>IIe with a Super Serial Card (different selections at the prompts.) This
>required using a previously-made backup copy of the DOS 3.3 disk made in
>step 6 above, since APP385.2 gets deleted each time 385.1 is EXECed.

Not bad.  Two notes about step 9

1) You CAN change serial drivers in ProDOS if you're willing to go to
   a little trouble.  Copy the driver from the DOS 3.3 disk and edit off
   the EXECKER385.INSTALL,R1 and END lines at the bottom (the last 2 lines).

   BLOAD KERMIT385
   EXEC KER385.driver (for SSC it's KER385.SS)
   BSAVE KERMIT385,A$2000,L$6E00

2) You can use the DOS 3.3 disk that you made to create a 'B' file with
   a new driver in MUCH LESS TIME by simply EXEC KER385.INSTALL (that's
   what that file is for :-)  That is, you don't need either APP385.1 or
   APP385.2

3) SAVE!!!! that DOS 3.3 disk that you made and BRUN KERMIT385 to download
   the NEXT new version of Kermit that comes along (saving all the grief
   commonly associated witth step 6)!

**AN ASIDE**

A few weeks ago I got mail from someone lamenting that they had NOT saved
the DOS 3.3 copy of the Kermit version they were using and couldn't seem
to succeed in getting the Install to work when copied from ProDOS to DOS 3.3.

*solution!*  It works the other way, you know.  copy the KERMIT38x 'BIN' file
from ProDOS to any bootable DOS 3.3 disk and then boot that disk and
BRUN KERMIT38x (and use THAT to download a new version :-)))))

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