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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: "Boot>" prompt from a USR modem.
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Igor Sobrado <igor@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> dold@xxbootxxxp.usenet.us.com wrote:
> > I have a US Robotics internal PCI modem, circa 2000.
> > This is noted in WinXP msinfo as a
> > Modem type: U.S. Robotics 56K Voice PCI

> You should start looking at:
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/comm/2513e/ Is it your modem?

Looks like it, but no help there about the "Boot>" mode.
I really didn't even know if it was a WinModem.  I'm only running Windows
on this box, it came pre-installed, and it works with various programs,
including Kermit.

> I guess (I do not own that modem as I am using NetBSD and OpenBSD
> exclusively on all my Dell computers) that you can use the "ATGM"
> command to exit the "Boot>" prompt and return to the normal mode.

Aha!
	atgm
	Modem Code Corrupt
	
	ERROR

That message looks like a firmware flash would help.
I'm trying to get Dell to tell me if there is a firmware flash available,
or if I should just throw this modem away and get a new modem.


-- thanks.

-- 
---
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA  GPS: 38.8,-122.5

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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Quick question on patch v2.2
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:37:53 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2006-09-21, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: How does the cost work with the patch?
: I currently have a site licence of 125. Is the cost 125 x $75 or just $75?
:
If you have a Bulk License, and your company has been paying the annual
maintenance fee, then you can download and apply the upgrade patch at no
cost.  If your maintenance payments are not current, you either have to
catch them up or else buy a new license:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95pricing.html#bulk

Direct business inquiries to kermit@columbia.edu.

- Frank

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From: Igor Sobrado <igor@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "Boot>" prompt from a USR modem.
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dold@xrexxxboot.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Igor Sobrado <igor@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> You should start looking at:
>> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/comm/2513e/ Is it your modem?
> 
> Looks like it, but no help there about the "Boot>" mode.
> I really didn't even know if it was a WinModem.  I'm only running Windows
> on this box, it came pre-installed, and it works with various programs,
> including Kermit.

I was only looking for a confirmation on the modem you are using.  I
believe that you have a winmodem, these are not very bad news in your
case, though, as you have a "software" problem.  But I am not sure,
as Unix user I never managed winmodems.

>> I guess (I do not own that modem as I am using NetBSD and OpenBSD
>> exclusively on all my Dell computers) that you can use the "ATGM"
>> command to exit the "Boot>" prompt and return to the normal mode.
> 
> Aha!
>        atgm
>        Modem Code Corrupt
>        
>        ERROR
> 
> That message looks like a firmware flash would help.
> I'm trying to get Dell to tell me if there is a firmware flash available,
> or if I should just throw this modem away and get a new modem.

My suggestion is reading this URL: http://www.modemsite.com/56k/flashback.asp

In the case of U.S. Robotics modems, there are three methods
to flash firmware (to hardware modems!!!).  In the case of winmodems
you should try either flashing them again (if these devices have
an EEPROM that can be reflashed) or reinstalling the software.

Good luck!

Igor.

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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Kermit - internet - kermit - com port connection.
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Hello,

It has been a long time since I have had to do this and I am not doing
something right.

I have a linux system that uses kermit over the internet to connect to an
ms kermit in server mode.  What I need to do is on the ms kermit get
files and send them to the main kermit system.

When on the MS kermit I do the following.

set port 1
set baud 9600
remote login Account
get data file.name
...
exit

What I need to do is from the internet connect to the ms kermit and run
the above providing the various file names.  I have 100 different files to
retrieve on 30 different systems.  I want one main system to run a script
and connect to each of the various systems and get/run various commands to
each of the cash registers that I connect to using the above.  Ideally I
would like to be able to see/detect a change in the files being accessed
from the MS Kermit.

I have the MS Kermit in Server mode but it does not want to do the
commands I am trying to send it.  What does work is get files from the
local drive on the MS kermit machine.  I am really sure I have used a
kermit to kermit connection to do this.  Could any one assist with some
ideas.  Usually I script this, but I seem to be missing something.

Thanks,



--
Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047

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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit - internet - kermit - com port connection.
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On 2006-09-27, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
: It has been a long time since I have had to do this and I am not doing
: something right.
:
: I have a linux system that uses kermit over the internet to connect to an
: ms kermit in server mode.  What I need to do is on the ms kermit get
: files and send them to the main kermit system.
:
: When on the MS kermit I do the following.
:
: set port 1
: set baud 9600
: remote login Account
: get data file.name
: ...
: exit
:
: What I need to do is from the internet connect to the ms kermit and run
: the above providing the various file names.  I have 100 different files to
: retrieve on 30 different systems.  I want one main system to run a script
: and connect to each of the various systems and get/run various commands to
: each of the cash registers that I connect to using the above.  Ideally I
: would like to be able to see/detect a change in the files being accessed
: from the MS Kermit.
:
: I have the MS Kermit in Server mode but it does not want to do the
: commands I am trying to send it.  What does work is get files from the
: local drive on the MS kermit machine.  I am really sure I have used a
: kermit to kermit connection to do this.  Could any one assist with some
: ideas.  Usually I script this, but I seem to be missing something.
:
Let's see if I understand.  You have a DOS PC that is on a network.
You want to make a connection to it over the network from a Linux system
and then you want the DOS system to make a serial-port connection to
a third system?  I'm not sure I'm seeing the picture.  MS-DOS Kermit can
receive incoming connections over the Internet, e.g. on TCP port 3000:

  set port tcp/ip * 3000

or it can make connections, but it can't do both at once; that is, it
can't act as a relay.  Is that what you're looking for?

- Frank

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Frank Da Cruz wrote:
> On 2006-09-27, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
> : It has been a long time since I have had to do this and I am not doing
> : something right.
> :
> : I have a linux system that uses kermit over the internet to connect to an
> : ms kermit in server mode.  What I need to do is on the ms kermit get
> : files and send them to the main kermit system.
> :
> : When on the MS kermit I do the following.
> :
> : set port 1
> : set baud 9600
> : remote login Account
> : get data file.name
> : ...
> : exit
...
> Let's see if I understand.  You have a DOS PC that is on a network.
> You want to make a connection to it over the network from a Linux system
> and then you want the DOS system to make a serial-port connection to
> a third system?  I'm not sure I'm seeing the picture.  MS-DOS Kermit can
> receive incoming connections over the Internet, e.g. on TCP port 3000:
>
>   set port tcp/ip * 3000
>
> or it can make connections, but it can't do both at once; that is, it
> can't act as a relay.  Is that what you're looking for?

Thanks, that is what I was trying to do.  I was trying to do both.

I setup ssh on the different MS boxes.  They had purchased MS Kermit
3.16.
I am able to ssh to the box and then after I have scp  the mskermit.ini
file do
cd c:/kermit/backoffice/
./kermit

And it connects to the port and I am able to get all  the files from
the registers.

ssh -luser 192.168.0.200
cd c:/kermit/backoffice/
./kermit

All the text for the files to download.

but if I use ssh to execute it as a remote command...

ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit

gives me this....

c://kermit/hbboys/backoffice/kermit
 IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999
Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.

Type ? or HELP for help

MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
MS-Kermit>

Instead of the download.  Is there something that I can do to get it to
run via ssh with commands?

Any ideas? on what I can do to achive this?

Thanks,

Boyd Gerber
gerberb@zenez.com


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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Running Kermit 3.16 via copSSH on Windows XP or older Windows
 connected serial devices
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Hello,

I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines with some
version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
3.16.

My mskermit.ini file on these machines has
set port 1
set baud 9600
PAUSE 2
REMOTE LOGIN RAIS
PAUSE 2
GET datafile
PAUSE 2
GET datafile1
...
EXIT

till I have all the files.


I thought I could use kermit via ssh to talk to the machines and directly
transfer the files.  Did not work.  I then setup cygwin and copSSH.  I am
able to ssh to the machines and then I use scp to copy a mskermit.ini with
the commands I need it to run.  I then am able to

ssh 192.168.0.200
cd /directory/files
./kermit
...

and all the files are downloaded to the machine and I am able to scp them
to the remote box or use scp on the remote box to get the files after
kermit has run.  But I am not able to get my scripts to remotely run
kermit to download and then scp the files.

When I try to run ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit

user@192.168.5.200's password:
 IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999
Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.

Type ? or HELP for help

MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
MS-Kermit>

And I am back at the prompt on the remote box and it has not run the
mskermit.ini file.

There has to be a way with either kermit-kermit-serial port transfer files
or via ssh and run the kermit on the MS Windows machines and then scp the
files.  The only step I have been uable to get working is to run kermit
remotely and get the files to the MS machine.  Any ideas.  I know I have
done this in the past but I can not seem to remember how and all my
googleing has not brought up a solutions.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

--
Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047

From fdc@panix.com Wed Oct 18 13:23:46 2006
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Running Kermit 3.16 via copSSH on Windows XP or older Windows connected serial devices
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Hi Boyd.

On 2006-10-17, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines with some
: version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
: their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
: 3.16.
:
For the record: MS-DOS Kermit is just plain not supported on Windows XP.  It
was never intended for that platform.  Kermit 95 is the supported Kermit
software for Windows 95 and later.

Whoever is selling software package for Windows 95 or later that includes
MS-DOS Kermit instead of Kermit 95, purchased or not, is selling a
misconfigured and mostly likely nonfunctional package.

But if the serial-port access works OK (which can happen only on certain
hardware configurations), fine.

: I thought I could use kermit via ssh to talk to the machines and directly
: transfer the files.  Did not work.  I then setup cygwin and copSSH.  I am
: able to ssh to the machines and then I use scp to copy a mskermit.ini with
: the commands I need it to run.  I then am able to
:
: ssh 192.168.0.200
: cd /directory/files
: ./kermit
: ...
:
: and all the files are downloaded to the machine and I am able to scp them
: to the remote box or use scp on the remote box to get the files after
: kermit has run.  But I am not able to get my scripts to remotely run
: kermit to download and then scp the files.
:
: When I try to run ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit
:
: user@192.168.5.200's password:
:  IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999
: Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.
:
: Type ? or HELP for help
:
: MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
: ?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
: MS-Kermit>
:
Why don't you use Kermit as your ssh client.  Then you can script it
to make the connection to the Windows ssh server, start MS-DOS Kermit
and interact with it, and then use Kermit protocol to transfer files
back to where you want them.  It's a two-step process but it can all be
done in a single script.

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ssh.html

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Wed Oct 18 13:24:30 2006
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Running Kermit 3.16 via copSSH on Windows XP or older Windows connected serial devices
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Hi Boyd.

On 2006-10-17, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines with some
: version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
: their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
: 3.16.
:
For the record: MS-DOS Kermit is just plain not supported on Windows XP.  It
was never intended for that platform.  Kermit 95 is the supported Kermit
software for Windows 95 and later.

Whoever is selling software package for Windows 95 or later that includes
MS-DOS Kermit instead of Kermit 95, purchased or not, is selling a
misconfigured and mostly likely nonfunctional package.

But if the serial-port access works OK (which can happen only on certain
hardware configurations), fine.

: I thought I could use kermit via ssh to talk to the machines and directly
: transfer the files.  Did not work.  I then setup cygwin and copSSH.  I am
: able to ssh to the machines and then I use scp to copy a mskermit.ini with
: the commands I need it to run.  I then am able to
:
: ssh 192.168.0.200
: cd /directory/files
: ./kermit
: ...
:
: and all the files are downloaded to the machine and I am able to scp them
: to the remote box or use scp on the remote box to get the files after
: kermit has run.  But I am not able to get my scripts to remotely run
: kermit to download and then scp the files.
:
: When I try to run ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit
:
: user@192.168.5.200's password:
:  IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999
: Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.
:
: Type ? or HELP for help
:
: MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
: ?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
: MS-Kermit>
:
Why don't you use Kermit as your ssh client.  Then you can script it
to make the connection to the Windows ssh server, start MS-DOS Kermit
and interact with it, and then use Kermit protocol to transfer files
back to where you want them.  It's a two-step process but it can all be
done in a single script.

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ssh.html

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> On 2006-10-17, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
.> : I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines
with some
> : version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
> : their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
> : 3.16.
> :
> For the record: MS-DOS Kermit is just plain not supported on Windows XP.  It
> was never intended for that platform.  Kermit 95 is the supported Kermit
> software for Windows 95 and later.

They were purchased around the year 2000. +/- a year or two.

> But if the serial-port access works OK (which can happen only on certain
> hardware configurations), fine.

They have been using this setup to talk to their registers since
1992/4.  They have used many different version of kermit.

> : ssh 192.168.0.200
> : cd /directory/files
> : ./kermit
> : ...
> :
> : and all the files are downloaded to the machine and I am able to scp them
> : to the remote box or use scp on the remote box to get the files after
> : kermit has run.  But I am not able to get my scripts to remotely run
> : kermit to download and then scp the files.
> :

I know kermit can use ssh,  So I get the same thing.  But to eliminate
scripting errors..

On linux I type kermit

linux-aostester:/zenez/work # kermit
C-Kermit 8.0.211, 10 Apr 2004, for Linux
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2004,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/zenez/work/) C-Kermit>

ssh boyd@192.168.5.200
 Closing connection
Connecting via command "ssh -e none boyd@192.168.5.200"
 Escape character: Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS): enabled
Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
or followed by ? to see other options.
----------------------------------------------------
boyd@192.168.5.200's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 17 12:10:02 2006 from 192.168.5.125

boyd@pos1 ~
$ cd c:/kermit/hbboys/backoffice

boyd@pos1 /cygdrive/c/kermit/hbboys/backoffice
$ ./kermit
 IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16  4 May 1999
Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.

Type ? or HELP for help

       MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16  4 May 1999 patch level 0

           File name:
           File type:
        Current path:
  KBytes transferred:




   Number of packets:
       Packet length:
   Number of retries: 0
          Last error:
        Last message:
           Receiving: In progress     113          2
12          113          2DATA01.SDFTEXT, Transparent to CP43794
  30          451          6789102
....

till all the files are done.  The same happens with ssh to the machine.

$ exit
logout
Connection to 192.168.5.200 closed.

Communications disconnect (Back at linux-aostester.aos)
----------------------------------------------------
(/zenez/work/) C-Kermit>ssh boyd@192.168.5.200
c:/kermit/hbboys/backoffice/kermit
 Closing connection
Connecting via command "ssh -e none boyd@192.168.5.200
c:/kermit/hbboys/backoffice/kermit"
 Escape character: Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS): enabled
Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
or followed by ? to see other options.
----------------------------------------------------
boyd@192.168.5.200's password:
 IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16  4 May 1999
Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.

Type ? or HELP for help

MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
MS-Kermit>
Communications disconnect (Back at linux-aostester.aos)
----------------------------------------------------
(/zenez/work/) C-Kermit>

So I really did not gain anything.  It does not matter whether I use
ssh or kermit to talk to the machine I always get the same ...

> :When I try to run ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit
> :
> : user@192.168.5.200's password:
> :  IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999
> : Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999.
> :
> : Type ? or HELP for help
> :
> : MS-Kermit>^A^A^A
> : ?Text exceeded available buffer capacity
> : MS-Kermit>
> :
> Why don't you use Kermit as your ssh client.  Then you can script it
> to make the connection to the Windows ssh server, start MS-DOS Kermit
> and interact with it, and then use Kermit protocol to transfer files
> back to where you want them.  It's a two-step process but it can all be
> done in a single script.

I tried and I still have the same problem.  That is why I thought I
should eliminate kermit ssh to kermit.  Some of these machine are still
running DOS with ancient ssh 1 server.  I am trying to get them to
replace upgrade all the machines.  They will not give up MS OS's on
these machines.  I have almost convinced them to buy new machines and
Kermit 95, but they insiston my proving to them over a 90 day test
trial that updated Kermit will work.  I see that I can only get a 21
day test trial.  Unfortunately on the machine I have available I
demo-ed kermit 95 a year ago and I can not get a new installation to
work.  I removed Kermit 95 7 days before the trial was over but I guess
something stays on the machine so I am unable to try it to see if just
replacing the MS Kermit with Kermit 95 will work.  They also have the
90 demo mandated.  All have the exact same problem trying to automate
them.  My original intention was to use kermit for everything.  I have
to talk to about 30 different locations all connected via CISCO VPN's

>   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ssh.html

Thanks,

Boyd Gerber
gerberb@zenez.com


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gerberb@zenez.com wrote:
> Frank da Cruz wrote:
> > On 2006-10-17, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
> .> : I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines
> with some
> > : version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
> > : their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
> > : 3.16.
> > :
> > For the record: MS-DOS Kermit is just plain not supported on Windows XP.  It
> > was never intended for that platform.  Kermit 95 is the supported Kermit
> > software for Windows 95 and later.
>
> They were purchased around the year 2000. +/- a year or two.
>
> > But if the serial-port access works OK (which can happen only on certain
> > hardware configurations), fine.

k95 errors and dies every time.

On the  REMOTE LOGIN RAIS

k95 wants to send an error report to Microsoft.  I am unable to
establish a remote connection.

On the sysetm

I enter k95
I always have to enter try.

I am unable to even run it from kermit on linux.  Given what I am
seeing I would avoid Kermit 95 like the plague.


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gerberb@zenez.com wrote:
> gerberb@zenez.com wrote:
>> Frank da Cruz wrote:
>>> On 2006-10-17, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
>> .> : I can not seem to remember how I used to do this.  The machines
>> with some
>>> : version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP.  I use kermit to talk with
>>> : their store registers.  The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit
>>> : 3.16.
>>> :
>>> For the record: MS-DOS Kermit is just plain not supported on Windows XP.  It
>>> was never intended for that platform.  Kermit 95 is the supported Kermit
>>> software for Windows 95 and later.
>> They were purchased around the year 2000. +/- a year or two.
>>
>>> But if the serial-port access works OK (which can happen only on certain
>>> hardware configurations), fine.
> 
> k95 errors and dies every time.
> 
> On the  REMOTE LOGIN RAIS
> 
> k95 wants to send an error report to Microsoft.  I am unable to
> establish a remote connection.
> 
> On the sysetm
> 
> I enter k95
> I always have to enter try.
> 
> I am unable to even run it from kermit on linux.  Given what I am
> seeing I would avoid Kermit 95 like the plague.

I doubt that you can do what you want with Kermit 95.  You are
trying to run an ssh server on Windows and execute Kermit 95 as a
subprocess of the ssh server and use it as if it were a remote kermit
file transfer engine.  That is not what Kermit 95 is designed to do.
Kermit 95 assumes it has control over a GUI window or a Console window.
Under the ssh server it has neither.  I'm not surprised it crashes.
I wouldn't waste my time with it either under this scenario.

If you are using the cygwin ssh server even more so because the cygwin
environment is a bit special.  You really need to run programs compiled
with the cygwin runtime under the cygwin ssh server.

If I were you I would compile gkermit under cygwin and use that under
the ssh kermit.

Kermit 95 is a perfectly good ssh client but it should not be used
on the server side.

Jeffrey Altman

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On 2006-10-18, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
: I doubt that you can do what you want with Kermit 95.  You are
: trying to run an ssh server on Windows and execute Kermit 95 as a
: subprocess of the ssh server and use it as if it were a remote kermit
: file transfer engine.  That is not what Kermit 95 is designed to do.
: Kermit 95 assumes it has control over a GUI window or a Console window.
: Under the ssh server it has neither.  I'm not surprised it crashes.
: I wouldn't waste my time with it either under this scenario.
:
: If you are using the cygwin ssh server even more so because the cygwin
: environment is a bit special.  You really need to run programs compiled
: with the cygwin runtime under the cygwin ssh server.
:
: If I were you I would compile gkermit under cygwin and use that under
: the ssh kermit.
:
: Kermit 95 is a perfectly good ssh client but it should not be used
: on the server side.
:
Another idea: Do you have to use SSH?  If you could use Telnet instead,
then you could have Kermit 95 on the remote end in its Internet Kermit
Service guise:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/wiksd.html

- Frank

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gerberb@zenez.com wrote:
>
> but if I use ssh to execute it as a remote command...
>
> ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit


Have you tried

ssh -enone -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

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From scottac@nb.sympatico.ca Wed Nov  8 10:41:47 2006
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Simple question. Is there a list of built in macros which can be configured?
ON_EXIT, and ON_UNKNOWN_ERROR are the types that I'm referring to.
I currently use K95 2.1.3

- Scott 



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On 2006-11-07, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: Simple question. Is there a list of built in macros which can be configured?
: ON_EXIT, and ON_UNKNOWN_ERROR are the types that I'm referring to.
: I currently use K95 2.1.3
:
If you start Kermit 95 or C-Kermit in such a way that it does not
execute its initialization file (e.g. "kermit -Y") and then type
"do ?" at the prompt, you'll get a list of the predefined macros, which
are:

 cautious      fatal         manual
 fast          ibm-linemode  robust

The ON_blah macros are not predefined, but their names are "well known",
such that if a given event occurs, and the corresponding macro is defined,
it is executed automatically.  At present, these are:

 Name:               When executed:
  ON_CD               whenever a CD command is given
  ON_CLOSE            any time a connection is closed
  ON_CTRLC            upon Ctrl-C (interruption from keyboard)
  ON_EXIT             when Kermit exits
  ON_LOGOUT           upon logout (Internet Kermit Service only)
  ON_OPEN             any time a connection is opened
  ON_UNKNOWN_COMMAND  whenever an unknown top-level command is given

- Frank

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We just moved over to SSH. Using K95 2.1.3.
We are now suddenly having issues with idle timeouts. Specifically 1 hour. 
Times you out even on active sessions.
I'm having problems finding an SSH setting that relates to that.

Been looking around as to how to fix that. The Set Terminal 
Idle-Timeout/Action doesn't seem to have any role in this.

I was looking at the patch notes (Jeffrey's v2.2), and the answer seems to 
be there. (listed below).
Any info or clues related to SSH timeouts would be greatly appricated.

----------------------------------

760. NEW FEATURE: SSH Heartbeats to maintain connections through 
NAT/Firewalls

A new command

  SET SSH HEARTBEAT-INTERVAL <seconds>

has been added to the next release to allow the SSH to be maintained
during long idle periods.  This is similar to the

  SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION TELNET-NOP
  SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT <seconds>

which can be used to preserve TELNET connections without actually
sending data to the host applications.



From fdc@panix.com Wed Nov  8 17:25:19 2006
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: SSH Timeout help
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On 2006-11-08, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: We just moved over to SSH. Using K95 2.1.3.
: We are now suddenly having issues with idle timeouts. Specifically 1 hour. 
: Times you out even on active sessions.
: I'm having problems finding an SSH setting that relates to that.
:
There isn't one in version 2.1.3.

: Been looking around as to how to fix that. The Set Terminal 
: Idle-Timeout/Action doesn't seem to have any role in this.
:
For the present, you can use SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION OUTPUT xxx for this,
together with a suitable SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT.  xxx would be one
or more characters that is/are likely to be ignored by or at least relatively
harmless to whatever application is running on the host.  Such as a Space
or a Nul character.

: I was looking at the patch notes (Jeffrey's v2.2), and the answer seems to 
: be there. (listed below).  Any info or clues related to SSH timeouts would
: be greatly appricated. 
:
SET SSH HEARTBEAT-INTERVAL will indeed be in the next release.

I have been working almost nonstop for more than year to get authorization 
for this release.  It so happens that we are at a critical juncture in the
negotiations right now.  (I'm not talking about Jeff, this is internal
university stuff.)  Some words of encouragement from institutional or
corporate clients as to the value of K95 to their organizations, and its
continued viability through the next 3-5 years could be helpful in this
connection.

Address these directly to me if you wish to keep them private.

- Frank
  fdc@columbia.edu

From fdc@panix.com Wed Nov  8 17:25:25 2006
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On 2006-11-08, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: We just moved over to SSH. Using K95 2.1.3.
: We are now suddenly having issues with idle timeouts. Specifically 1 hour. 
: Times you out even on active sessions.
:
Addressing this one sepately...  Who/what is closing the session?  Obviously
it's not Kermit.  It's either the host you're ssh'd to, or it's a NAT or
router or somesuch in between.  I use K95 SSH all day every day and have never
seen a problem like this, but then I'm not dealing with firewalls or NATs
either.  You should begin by finding out where this 1-hour timer is set.
Maybe the place where this occurs does not care if the session is idle,
it's simply an elapsed-time limit on the session.  But it's not in Kermit.

- Frank


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Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> Addressing this one sepately...  Who/what is closing the session?  Obviously
> it's not Kermit.  It's either the host you're ssh'd to, or it's a NAT or
> router or somesuch in between.  

I use K95 SSH all day as well, with many sessions open.
Some of the sessions stay open for days with no activity.
Two of the sessions consistently close during a period of inactivity.
One is to a ksh prompt on a Unix server that is supposed to be very
secure, and probably has various timeouts set.  

The other is out through a firewall.

In both cases, I have little reason to suspect that it is kermit, since
connecting to the outside server from the outside, without going through
the firewall, can sit idle for hours.

In both cases, I think it is aggressive "security" tuning by the same
network admins.

-- 
---
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA  GPS: 38.8,-122.5

From arthur.marsh@internode.on.net Thu Nov  9 10:45:21 2006
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Frank da Cruz wrote, On 2006-11-09 08:50:
> On 2006-11-08, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> : We just moved over to SSH. Using K95 2.1.3.
> : We are now suddenly having issues with idle timeouts. Specifically 1 hour. 
> : Times you out even on active sessions.
> : I'm having problems finding an SSH setting that relates to that.
> :
> There isn't one in version 2.1.3.
> 
> : Been looking around as to how to fix that. The Set Terminal 
> : Idle-Timeout/Action doesn't seem to have any role in this.
> :
> For the present, you can use SET TERMINAL IDLE-ACTION OUTPUT xxx for this,
> together with a suitable SET TERMINAL IDLE-TIMEOUT.  xxx would be one
> or more characters that is/are likely to be ignored by or at least relatively
> harmless to whatever application is running on the host.  Such as a Space
> or a Nul character.
> 
> : I was looking at the patch notes (Jeffrey's v2.2), and the answer seems to 
> : be there. (listed below).  Any info or clues related to SSH timeouts would
> : be greatly appricated. 
> :
> SET SSH HEARTBEAT-INTERVAL will indeed be in the next release.
> 
> I have been working almost nonstop for more than year to get authorization 
> for this release.  It so happens that we are at a critical juncture in the
> negotiations right now.  (I'm not talking about Jeff, this is internal
> university stuff.)  Some words of encouragement from institutional or
> corporate clients as to the value of K95 to their organizations, and its
> continued viability through the next 3-5 years could be helpful in this
> connection.

"Preaching from the choir" here but having K95 available for Windows XX 
with all its features (e.g. from scripting that is compatible with 
C-Kermit scripting to more obscure security options like SRP over SSH) 
is a great way not to get trapped in Windows.

> 
> Address these directly to me if you wish to keep them private.
> 
> - Frank
>   fdc@columbia.edu

Arthur.

From scottac@nb.sympatico.ca Thu Nov  9 10:46:47 2006
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The 1 hour issue is what we're trying to track down. Didn't occur until we 
upgraded the logon security.
We've got a number of clues from various tests. Could be network, or server, 
related and not Kermit as a client related.
Relavent commands we have so far that worked fine before:
Set Terminal Idle-Timeout 0
Set Terminal Idle-Action Return

But this feedback does help eliminate K95 as the cause. But if so, then 
perhaps the patch fix won't help in this regard.

- Scott

"Frank Da Cruz" <fdc@panix.com> wrote in message 
news:slrnel4ma5.lfs.fdc@panix2.panix.com...
> On 2006-11-08, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> : We just moved over to SSH. Using K95 2.1.3.
> : We are now suddenly having issues with idle timeouts. Specifically 1 
> hour.
> : Times you out even on active sessions.
> :
> Addressing this one sepately...  Who/what is closing the session? 
> Obviously
> it's not Kermit.  It's either the host you're ssh'd to, or it's a NAT or
> router or somesuch in between.  I use K95 SSH all day every day and have 
> never
> seen a problem like this, but then I'm not dealing with firewalls or NATs
> either.  You should begin by finding out where this 1-hour timer is set.
> Maybe the place where this occurs does not care if the session is idle,
> it's simply an elapsed-time limit on the session.  But it's not in Kermit.
>
> - Frank
> 



From mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr Mon Nov 20 11:09:08 2006
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Hello,

I'm a beginner as a kermit user so my question may be already answered
in the FAQ but I could find it.

I use kermit to communicate with a sea robot by iridium phone. How to
make my terminal ringing (an audible ring lasting for while in order to
wake up a person) when the robot calls the terminal ?

Thank you very much, Laurent


From fdc@panix.com Mon Nov 20 11:26:14 2006
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On 2006-11-19, mortier <mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> wrote:
: I'm a beginner as a kermit user so my question may be already answered
: in the FAQ but I could find it.
:
: I use kermit to communicate with a sea robot by iridium phone. How to
: make my terminal ringing (an audible ring lasting for while in order to
: wake up a person) when the robot calls the terminal ?
:
So you have a Kermit script running on your computer, and this script
contains an ANSWER command?

You could do something like this:

  set ask-timer 2
  if success {
      local x
      set quiet on
      echo YOU HAVE A CALL at \v(time).
      echo Press any key to start session...
      while true {
	  getc x \7\7\7\7\7\7\7\7\7\7
	  if success break
	  sleep 1
      }
  }
  set ask-timer 0
  connect

- Frank

From texasredleg@gmail.com Fri Dec  1 16:43:05 2006
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Hello from South Texas:

I think I intuitively know the answer to this....but:

If I'm transferring data from 3 distant servers to one target server
using Kermit 95, how many licenses do I need?  3 or 4?

Thank you,

John T.
San Antonio, Texas  USA


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You need one license per machine that Kermit 95 is installed on.

texasredleg@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello from South Texas:
> 
> I think I intuitively know the answer to this....but:
> 
> If I'm transferring data from 3 distant servers to one target server
> using Kermit 95, how many licenses do I need?  3 or 4?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> John T.
> San Antonio, Texas  USA
> 

From texasredleg@gmail.com Fri Dec  1 16:43:05 2006
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Hello from South Texas:

I think I intuitively know the answer to this....but:

If I'm transferring data from 3 distant servers to one target server
using Kermit 95, how many licenses do I need?  3 or 4?

Thank you,

John T.
San Antonio, Texas  USA


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You need one license per machine that Kermit 95 is installed on.

texasredleg@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello from South Texas:
> 
> I think I intuitively know the answer to this....but:
> 
> If I'm transferring data from 3 distant servers to one target server
> using Kermit 95, how many licenses do I need?  3 or 4?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> John T.
> San Antonio, Texas  USA
> 

From fdc@panix.com Tue Dec 12 13:06:19 2006
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As many of you have reported, downloads from the Kermit FTP site are hanging
and rarely complete successfully.  This started happening about 7 Dec 2006
when a new release (or a patch to) Columbia's Cisco Content Switching
Modules (CSMs) was installed.

Connections to the FTP server seem normal (except that sometimes you reach
an empty file system, but that's a different problem).  But then a GET or an
MGET, in either passive or active mode, generally results in a hung session
after downloading all or most of the file.  My theory is that the TCP RST
packet that is sent when the FTP server closes the data connection is not
being forwarded by the CSM because it's a "runt", but who knows.  The server
believes the transfer was successful and sends "226 Transfer complete." on
the control connection.  So depending on how your FTP client is coded, it
might accept an incomplete file as if it was complete.

Anyway the problem has been reported to Cisco, and our sysadmins (I'm not
one any more) are looking into a workaround.  In the meantime, I've enabled
HTTP (Web) access to all the files in the FTP archive:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/

Any files downloaded with FTP from Columbia since Thursday are likely to
be corrupt, and that includes files in any and all sites that mirror the
Columbia's FTP site.

Watch this space for further news, and/or the Kermit Project home page:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

Meanwhile, I took advantage of the situation to add a crude but effective
timeout mechanism to C-Kermit's FTP client:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckdaily.html

So far it works only for GET and MGET, not for PUT or MPUT, and not for
operations on the control connection like DIR, but at least now you can
time out of hung GETs:

  set ftp timeout 20
  get x.tar.gz

The timeout value is in seconds.  It applies not to the whole tranfer, but
to each attempt to read from the data connection, kind of like Kermit
protocol per-packet timeouts.

This feature works in consort with SET FTP ERROR-ACTION and SET FILE
INCOMPLETE, so you can decide what should happen if there is a timeout --
keep the incomplete file or delete it; go on to the next one (if MGET'ing)
or stop dead.  Remember, you are downloading in binary mode and the file
is incomplete, in most cases (depending on the server) you can REGET it
rather than starting over.

- Frank

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Hello all -

I am a complete newbie to Kermit and have been tooling around with it
the past few days trying to write a script that will call a set of
numbers and return the status of each.  The problem I keep running in
to is the limited information I am getting back from dialstatus.  If I
use the pdial function to dial the numbers, it will return a status 11
(OK) every time, whether it is a good number or not.  If I use the dial
function, I get a successful BUSY test, but it will return NO ANSWER,
even if the call was picked up.

Frank suggested earlier that I read up on the pager example on the
Kermit website at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pagers.html, but I run
into the same problems.

The absolute bare minimum this script has to accomplish is to be able
to tell whether a human voice answers the line, whether a triple tone
is detected, a busy signal, or no answer.  Is Kermit capable of this?

Here is the script I've been testing.  Any help or direction would be
much appreciated:

#set modem hangup-method modem-command
set modem type generic-high-speed
set port com5
set speed 2400
set flow rts/cts
set dial retries 0
#set dial timeout 30
set dial display on
.number := "99032222222@"

dial \m(number)
.result1 := \v(dialstatus)
.result2 := \v(status)
echo Dial status: \m(result1)
echo Status: \m(result2)
pause 2
hangup


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Subject: Re: Kermit 95 dialstatus
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On 2006-12-12, Wesley Baker <wesley.baker@west.com> wrote:
: I am a complete newbie to Kermit and have been tooling around with it
: the past few days trying to write a script that will call a set of
: numbers and return the status of each.  The problem I keep running in
: to is the limited information I am getting back from dialstatus.  If I
: use the pdial function to dial the numbers, it will return a status 11
: (OK) every time, whether it is a good number or not.  If I use the dial
: function, I get a successful BUSY test, but it will return NO ANSWER,
: even if the call was picked up.
:
NO ANSWER is the modem's response when when the phone was not answered by
another modem and carrier successfully negotiated.

: Frank suggested earlier that I read up on the pager example on the
: Kermit website at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pagers.html, but I run
: into the same problems.
:
: The absolute bare minimum this script has to accomplish is to be able
: to tell whether a human voice answers the line, whether a triple tone
: is detected, a busy signal, or no answer.  Is Kermit capable of this?
:
That's not a question about Kermit, it's a question about the modem you
are dialing with.  If you dial it by hand, what response codes does it
produce in each case?  All Kermit can do is read the response code and
act on them if it understands them.  If they are new and strange response
codes, Kermit can be scripted to dial the modem and handle them in any
desired way.

- Frank

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Subject: Kermit FTP site OK again
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As of 5:30pm, 12 December 2006, the Kermit FTP site is functioning normally
again after working around the actual problem (which still is not fixed) by
reconfiguring the network to avoid it.  The new HTTP access remains available
too.  Sorry for the inconvience.  If anybody sees any more problems, please
report them right away to kermit-support@columbia.edu.  Thanks.

- Frank

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Subject: Next release of Kermit 95
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As most of you know, I've been working ever since 2003 to try to convince
Columbia University management to authorize spending some money to produce
a new release of Kermit 95 for Windows.  With Windows Vista on the horizon
and galloping towards us, the matter takes on a new urgency.  As far as I
can tell:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95faq.html#vista

K95 2.1.3 works OK on Vista: but there are some bumps, and I did not have
the opportunity to test every little thing.  In any case, it's not just
Vista.  I've written a little sketch of some of the issues and of what
Kermit 95 3.0 might look like here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95next.html

and I put up a survey to collect some info from K95 users here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95survey.html

I'd appreciate it if all K95 users would take the time to fill it out.
It's anonymous and all answers are optional.  The new management here
needs some convincing, and in the end the marketplace speaks loudest.

Thanks.

- Frank

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As most of you know, I've been working ever since 2003 to try to convince
Columbia University management to authorize spending some money to produce
a new release of Kermit 95 for Windows.  With Windows Vista on the horizon
and galloping towards us, the matter takes on a new urgency.  As far as I
can tell:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95faq.html#vista

K95 2.1.3 works OK on Vista: but there are some bumps, and I did not have
the opportunity to test every little thing.  In any case, it's not just
Vista.  I've written a little sketch of some of the issues and of what
Kermit 95 3.0 might look like here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95next.html

and I put up a survey to collect some info from K95 users here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95survey.html

I'd appreciate it if all K95 users would take the time to fill it out.
It's anonymous and all answers are optional.  The new management here
needs some convincing, and in the end the marketplace speaks loudest.

Thanks.

- Frank

From scottac@nb.sympatico.ca Tue Dec 19 10:08:51 2006
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Subject: Macro: Terminal -> Command -> Terminal -> Command?
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I'm trying to find any possible way to allow a Macro to revert back to the 
COMMAND window "after" CONNECTing.

Step #1 Terminal --> Command
Set Key \96 \Ktest
Define test {
; various commands
CONNECT
}
While in the TERMINAL, the key will bring you to the COMMAND window where 
the macro is processed.

Step #2 Command --> Terminal
Define test {
; various commands
CONNECT
}
One the script is done, the CONNECT command goes to the TERMINAL.

Step #3 ?? Terminal --> Command
Now heres my question. Can a macro issue a command through OUTPUT or TRIGGER 
that will cause you to return back to the COMMAND window? I know you can't 
OUTPUT \Kexit.
I'm not sure if TRIGGER is buggy or not but it loses its trigger in a 
certain situations without actually "triggering" you back to the COMMAND 
window. I'm not having much luck in getting OUTPUT and TRIGGER to work 
together.

Example:
SET TERMINAL TRIGGER TEST
OUTPUT TEST
CONNECT
* Trigger is used up, but didn't actually trigger anything.


- Scott 



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Scott Caissie wrote:

> Example:
> SET TERMINAL TRIGGER TEST
> OUTPUT TEST
> CONNECT
> * Trigger is used up, but didn't actually trigger anything.

Triggers work on INPUT not on OUTPUT.  If the host echo's the
data back, then the trigger can be triggered.   If the host doesn't
echo the data back, then there is nothing to trigger on.

If your terminal is in local-echo mode, then the host is not
sending any data and the local-echo would have been processed
when the OUTPUT command was executed.  In that case, the trigger
would not go off because you were not in CONNECT mode when the
INPUT was processed.

Scripts cannot control operations that are performed while the
"terminal" is displayed to the end-user.  The CONNECT command
specifically gives control to the end-user and pauses the execution
of scripts.  The only exceptions are idle actions, triggers, and
host driven events (file transfers, APCs, ...).

Kermit does not have a mode that permits the command processor
and the terminal to operate simultaneously because the command
processor is not thread safe.  Adding thread safety to the command
processor will require a complete re-write.

Jeffrey Altman

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I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the way 
I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command before, 
and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically mirroring my 
actions.
I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to see 
if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.

SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
set input echo off
clear input-buffer
define vega {
.LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
for \%t 1 24 1 {
echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
}
}


"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:lWShh.32651$tb6.31529@news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com...
> Scott Caissie wrote:
>
>> Example:
>> SET TERMINAL TRIGGER TEST
>> OUTPUT TEST
>> CONNECT
>> * Trigger is used up, but didn't actually trigger anything.
>
> Triggers work on INPUT not on OUTPUT.  If the host echo's the
> data back, then the trigger can be triggered.   If the host doesn't
> echo the data back, then there is nothing to trigger on.
>
> If your terminal is in local-echo mode, then the host is not
> sending any data and the local-echo would have been processed
> when the OUTPUT command was executed.  In that case, the trigger
> would not go off because you were not in CONNECT mode when the
> INPUT was processed.
>
> Scripts cannot control operations that are performed while the
> "terminal" is displayed to the end-user.  The CONNECT command
> specifically gives control to the end-user and pauses the execution
> of scripts.  The only exceptions are idle actions, triggers, and
> host driven events (file transfers, APCs, ...).
>
> Kermit does not have a mode that permits the command processor
> and the terminal to operate simultaneously because the command
> processor is not thread safe.  Adding thread safety to the command
> processor will require a complete re-write.
>
> Jeffrey Altman 



From fdc@panix.com Wed Dec 20 09:47:35 2006
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On 2006-12-20, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the way 
: I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command before, 
: and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically mirroring my 
: actions.
:
I try to explain it succinctly here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html#tut

: I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
: This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to see 
: if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
:
As far as I know, INPUT 0 should work OK in K95 2.1.3.  I tested it just now,
briefly, and it behaved as expected: succeeds if the text has already arrived
but has not yet been processed, fails if the text is not there.  I don't see
anything in my notes about problems with or fixes to this.

Incidentally, INPUT has a bunch of related variables that you might find
useful.  You can see them by typing "show var ^in" (show all the builtin
variables whose names start with "in"):

 \v(input) =          The current INPUT buffer contents (circular)
 \v(inchar) =         The character most recently read by INPUT
 \v(incount) = 0      How many chars were read by the most recent INPUT
 \v(inmatch) =        The string that the INPUT command matched
 \v(instatus) = -1    Status of last INPUT command
 \v(intime) = -1      Elapsed time for the most recent INPUT to complete
 \v(inwait) = 0       Time limit specified for most recent INPUT

\v(inmatch) is useful with MINPUT, when you are looking for any of a
number of strings to show up, so you know which one you got.  This result
is typically used as a SWITCH control, to process the event.  It's also
useful when using INPUT with \fpattern() to search for a pattern rather
than a literal string, to know what the string was that matched the
pattern.

\v(instatus) is:
  0 if INPUT succeeded
  1 if the INPUT command timed out
  2 if the user interrupted the INPUT command from the keyboard
  3 (internal error, shouldn't happen)
  4 i/o error or connection lost.
  5 Kermit server active (INPUT attempted with WIKSD).

For more information about the INPUT command, type HELP SET INPUT at the
K-95> prompt.

- Frank

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From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com>
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Scott Caissie wrote:
> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the way 
> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command before, 
> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically mirroring my 
> actions.
> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to see 
> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
> 
> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
> set input echo off
> clear input-buffer
> define vega {
> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
> for \%t 1 24 1 {
> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
> }
> }

If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process data.

Jeffrey Altman

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That is what my tests today showed.
With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about 50-200 
times.
For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the 
screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 1 of 
my projects will need to update the screen twice.
I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.

Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an instaneous 
forced update command.
That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.

But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.

- Scott

"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Scott Caissie wrote:
>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the 
>> way
>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command 
>> before,
>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically mirroring 
>> my
>> actions.
>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to 
>> see
>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>
>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>> set input echo off
>> clear input-buffer
>> define vega {
>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>> }
>> }
>
> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process 
> data.
>
> Jeffrey Altman 



From jaltman2@nyc.rr.com Fri Dec 22 10:37:24 2006
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The value is a "timeout" period not a time-you-must-wait-for period.
You could put 1000 there and it wouldn't make a different provided that
the data you are looking for actually arrives.  The value is "how long
should I wait if the pattern I was given does not find a match on the
incoming data stream?"



Scott Caissie wrote:
> That is what my tests today showed.
> With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about 50-200 
> times.
> For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the 
> screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 1 of 
> my projects will need to update the screen twice.
> I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.
> 
> Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an instaneous 
> forced update command.
> That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.
> 
> But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.
> 
> - Scott
> 
> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
> news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the 
>>> way
>>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command 
>>> before,
>>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically mirroring 
>>> my
>>> actions.
>>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
>>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to 
>>> see
>>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>>
>>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>>> set input echo off
>>> clear input-buffer
>>> define vega {
>>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>>> }
>>> }
>> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
>> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process 
>> data.
>>
>> Jeffrey Altman 
> 
> 

From JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com Fri Dec 22 10:37:56 2006
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Back in April 2006 Jeff Altman mentioned the issue with later versions
of ssh servers and
compression. I thought I'd seen another reference, but Google search
produced nothing.
Just to add to the bank of knowledge we are in the process of migrating
our server package from SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 10.2.
SSH connections with old kermit scripts to the 10.2 server yield
following:
no matching comp found: client zlib server none,zlib@openssh.com
login failed
?Unable to connect to 192.168.1.7

Adding the following line results in usable connection:
set ssh compression off

I hope this is useful to others and perhaps will help with reasons for
a next version of K95

Regards...Dan.


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Tom Horsley wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2006 18:52:22 -0800
> "jdanskinner" <JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com> wrote:
>
> > Adding the following line results in usable connection:
> > set ssh compression off
> >
> > I hope this is useful to others and perhaps will help with reasons for
> > a next version of K95
>
> If you control the sshd_config, you can also fix the problem by
> changing the Compression parameter back to the default "yes" it
> formerly had before the openssh folks added "delayed" as the new
> default.

Tom;
We do, and you are right.
Thanks.
Regards...Dan.


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I have recently downloaded c-kermit 8.0.211 for solaris and am having a
problem using the 'ftp check' command.  I always receive a successful
return status whether the file exists on the remote server or not.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.


From fdc@panix.com Fri Dec 22 17:06:40 2006
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On 2006-12-22, robt <robt@publicans.com> wrote:
: I have recently downloaded c-kermit 8.0.211 for solaris and am having a
: problem using the 'ftp check' command.  I always receive a successful
: return status whether the file exists on the remote server or not.  Any
: help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
:
Use SET FTP DEBUG ON to see what's happening.  Here's what happens when
the connection and the FTP server are functioning properly.  First we
make the connection, CD, and enable debugging:

  C-Kermit>ftp open kermit.columbia.edu /anonymous
  Connected to kermit.columbia.edu.
  C-Kermit>cd kermit/a
  C-Kermit>set ftp debug on

Now we try FTP CHECK for a file known to exist:

  C-Kermit>ftp check aavers.txt
  ---> TYPE A
  200 Type set to A.
  ---> PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (128,59,29,214,202,133)
  ---> NLST aavers.txt
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
  226 Transfer complete.
  LISTFILE: /tmp/ckOPaOze
  [aavers.txt]
  C-Kermit>status
   SUCCESS
  C-Kermit>

And now for a file known not to exist:

  C-Kermit>ftp check lkjlkjlkj
  ---> TYPE A
  200 Type set to A.
  ---> PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (128,59,29,214,202,153)
  ---> NLST lkjlkjlkj
  550 lkjlkjlkj: No such file or directory.
  C-Kermit>status
   FAILURE
  C-Kermit>

Works OK here!

- Frank

From jaltman2@nyc.rr.com Sat Dec 23 10:18:51 2006
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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> As most of you know, I've been working ever since 2003 to try to convince
> Columbia University management to authorize spending some money to produce
> a new release of Kermit 95 for Windows.  With Windows Vista on the horizon
> and galloping towards us, the matter takes on a new urgency.  As far as I
> can tell:
> 
>   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95faq.html#vista

I do not foresee major issues on 32-bit Windows Vista.  Where there will
be issues are support for the 64-bit Windows Vista platforms.  While
Kermit 95 will run as a 32-bit application in the WOW64 environment,
there will be issues.

Windows Vista requires applications to be digitally signed if they are
going to be permitted to make outbound internet connections or accept
incoming connections.  The existing Kermit 95 release is not digitally
signed.  The binaries I distribute as updates to registered users are
signed.

The Windows Internet Kermit Service is unlikely to work on Vista.  The
private interfaces that Kermit 95 uses to generate authentication tokens
for incoming connections were removed as part of the increased security
of Vista.

> K95 2.1.3 works OK on Vista: but there are some bumps, and I did not have
> the opportunity to test every little thing.  In any case, it's not just
> Vista.  I've written a little sketch of some of the issues and of what
> Kermit 95 3.0 might look like here:
> 
>   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95next.html
> 
> and I put up a survey to collect some info from K95 users here:
> 
>   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95survey.html
> 
> I'd appreciate it if all K95 users would take the time to fill it out.
> It's anonymous and all answers are optional.  The new management here
> needs some convincing, and in the end the marketplace speaks loudest.

The most important questions that I would ask if I were Columbia
University management are:

* how many existing users would pay for an update?

* how much would they pay?

Free updates to existing Kermit 95 users will not generate revenues
sufficient to underwrite the development costs.

To give users some idea of the costs of software development.  Secure
Endpoints Inc. has developed the Network Identity Manager which is
distributed as part of MIT Kerberos for Windows version 3.1.  This
application cost more than $225,000 to design and implement.  The AFS
and K.X509 plug-ins for Network Identity Manager cost about $35,000 each.

Kermit 95 is in many ways a much more complex tool to develop and
support than Network Identity Manager.  It utilizes many more Windows
APIs and has a much more challenging user interface.  The development
costs associated with the upgrade that Frank da Cruz is proposing will
require approximately $65,000 to be invested in the short term.  At $25
an upgrade license would require 2600 users just to break even.

I encourage you to assist Frank da Cruz make his case to management.  I
believe the best way to do so is to publicly state what you are willing
to pay to see a future release of Kermit 95 from Columbia University.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.
http://www.secure-endpoints.com

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Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
> I encourage you to assist Frank da Cruz make his case to management.  I
> believe the best way to do so is to publicly state what you are willing
> to pay to see a future release of Kermit 95 from Columbia University.


OK, I'll jump in. I license K-95 for two machines (two licenses). I am
willing to pay up to $100. to upgrade (that's $50. ea, $100. total),
particularly if there might be a third edition of _Using C-Kermit_ in
the works. I'd buy the book in any case if it were available.

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value net      Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator


From robt@publicans.com Wed Dec 27 15:49:53 2006
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This is what I receive on my system:
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>set ftp debug on
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>ftp open tartarus
Connected to tartarus.
220 tartarus FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
 Name (tartarus:oracle): oracle
---> USER oracle
331 Password required for oracle.
 Password:
---> PASS XXXX
230 User oracle logged in.
Switching LOCUS for file-management commands to REMOTE.
---> REST 0
502 REST command not implemented.
---> SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: SUNOS
Remote system type is UNIX.
---> TYPE I
200 Type set to I.
Default transfer mode is BINARY
---> MODE S
200 MODE S ok.
---> STRU F
200 STRU F ok.
---> FEAT
500 'FEAT': command not understood.
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>cd scripts
---> CWD scripts
250 CWD command successful.
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>ftp check tst
---> TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
---> PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,7,175,241,21)
---> NLST tst
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (192.168.7.99,38074) (0 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
LISTFILE: /tmp/ckT9ayfB
[/bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory]
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>status
 SUCCESS
(/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>

You'll notice that even though the file 'tst' does not exist, I still
am getting a 'SUCCESS' status.


From jaltman2@nyc.rr.com Wed Dec 27 15:50:29 2006
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robt wrote:

> 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,7,175,241,21)
> ---> NLST tst
> 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (192.168.7.99,38074) (0 bytes).
> 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
> LISTFILE: /tmp/ckT9ayfB
> [/bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory]
> (/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>status
>  SUCCESS
> (/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>
> 
> You'll notice that even though the file 'tst' does not exist, I still
> am getting a 'SUCCESS' status.
> 

What I believe is happening here is that the FTP server is returning

  [/bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory]

as part of the LISTFILE output.  If you examine the /tmp/ckT9ayfB
file you should see it.  If that is in fact the case, then when
C-Kermit parses the LISTFILE searching for the specified pattern
it does in fact find it.

If I was debugging this problem I would request that you

  LOG DEBUG <filename>
  SET FTP DEBUG ON
  SET FTP VERBOSE ON

repeat the test

  CLOSE DEBUG

and then send the ftp debug output, the temporary LISTFILE, and
the debug log output for analysis.



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On 2006-12-27, robt <robt@publicans.com> wrote:
: Here's the LISTFILE output:
: /bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory
:
When Jeff suggested that you get a debug log, he didn't mean you should
post it to the newsgroup.  That's what kermit-support@columbia.edu is for.

: This is the ftp session:
: ...
: (/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>ftp check tst
: ---> TYPE A
: 200 Type set to A.
: ---> PASV
: 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,7,175,141,252)
: ---> NLST tst
: 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (192.168.7.99,40546) (0 bytes).
: 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
: LISTFILE: /tmp/ck9naiav
: [/bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory]
: (/usr2/prod/home/oracle/scripts/system/) C-Kermit>status
:  SUCCESS
:
: This is the logfile:
:
It would have been more useful to enclose the listfile itself, which in
this case was /tmp/ck9naiav.

: CMD(P)[ftp check tst]
: ftp remote_files mgetmethod[NLST]
: ftp remote_files whicharg[tst]
: ftp recvrequest cmd[NLST]=0
: ftp recvrequest local [/tmp/ck9naiav]
: zchko entry[/tmp/ck9naiav]
: zchko len[/tmp/ck9naiav]=13
: zchko zchkod[/tmp/ck9naiav]=0
: ...
: FTP SENT [NLST tst]
: FTP RCVD [150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (192.168.7.99,40546) (0
: bytes).]ftp getreply[150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls
: (192.168.7.99,40546) (0 bytes).]=1
: HEXDUMP: ftp secure_getc recv (16 bytes)
: 2f 62 69 6e 2f 6c 73 3a | 20 74 73 74 3a 20 4e 6f  /bin/ls:  tst: No...
: FTP RCVD [226 ASCII Transfer complete.]
: ftp getreply[226 ASCII Transfer complete.]=2
: remote_files name[/bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory]
:
This shows that "NLST tst" resulted in the FTP sending back the following
text on the data channel:

  /bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory

Quoting from RFC959, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) specification:

  NAME LIST (NLST)
      This command causes a directory listing to be sent from
      server to user site.  The pathname should specify a
      directory or other system-specific file group descriptor; a
      null argument implies the current directory.  The server
      will return a stream of names of files and no other
      information.

The server is clearly in the wrong.  If it followed the protocol, there
would be no problem.

However I can see that Kermit could defend itself better in this case.
I'll add this to the list.

- Frank

From jaltman2@nyc.rr.com Thu Dec 28 12:33:51 2006
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There definitely is a bug here.  FTP CHECK <file> is implemented as:

    case FTP_CHK:     /* Check if remote file(s) exist(s) */
        if ((x = cmtxt("remote filename", "", &s, xxstring)) < 0)
          return(x);
        CHECKCONN();
        success = remote_files(1,(CHAR *)s,NULL,0) ? 1 : 0;
        return(success);

The problem is that remote_files() returns a CHAR * not a success
or failure value.

In this case, because no pattern parameter is being specified,
the return value is a pointer to the static buffer containing

   /bin/ls: tst: No such file or directory

This is because in remote_files() the NLST case doesn't handle
the situation where the server returns an error string instead
of the file name.

    if (mgetmethod == SND_NLS) {	/* NLST... */
	if (pattern) {
	    if (!ckmatch((char *)pattern,p,(servertype == SYS_UNIX),1))
	      goto again;
	}
    }

The end result is that the non-NULL return is being treated as
a success value.

This could be fixed by treating by using the 'arg' as the 'pattern'
in the NLST case if 'pattern' is not specified or by passing in
'arg' as the 'pattern' into the remote_files() call in the FTP_CHK
block.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.


From arthur.marsh@internode.on.net Sat Jan 13 13:54:46 2007
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Hi, I just needed to display the current UTC date and time at the 
C-Kermit prompt (using the current nightly build on Debian unstable) and 
  looked at the options using HELP DATE.

Although it wasn't (apparently) documented, I tried:

DATE NOW UTC

and obtained the desired result.

Could the "NOW" keyword be documented in the "HELP DATE" text please?

Regards,

Arthur.

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Arthur Marsh wrote, On 14/01/07 02:07:
> Hi, I just needed to display the current UTC date and time at the 
> C-Kermit prompt (using the current nightly build on Debian unstable) and 
>  looked at the options using HELP DATE.
> 
> Although it wasn't (apparently) documented, I tried:
> 
> DATE NOW UTC
> 
> and obtained the desired result.
> 
> Could the "NOW" keyword be documented in the "HELP DATE" text please?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arthur.

Correction, DATE NOW UTC gave me a didn't give me the correct time, it 
ADDED 10:30 to the local time instead of subtracting it (My current 
local timezone is UTC+10:30):

date
20070114 02:22:51
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now
20070114 02:22:53
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now utc
20070114 12:52:57
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now -10:30
20070113 15:53:08
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>

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On 2007-01-13, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
: Arthur Marsh wrote, On 14/01/07 02:07:
:> Hi, I just needed to display the current UTC date and time at the 
:> C-Kermit prompt (using the current nightly build on Debian unstable) and 
:>  looked at the options using HELP DATE.
:> 
:> Although it wasn't (apparently) documented, I tried:
:> 
:> DATE NOW UTC
:> 
:> and obtained the desired result.
:> 
:> Could the "NOW" keyword be documented in the "HELP DATE" text please?
:
OK, on my list.

: Correction, DATE NOW UTC gave me a didn't give me the correct time, it 
: ADDED 10:30 to the local time instead of subtracting it (My current 
: local timezone is UTC+10:30):
:
: date
: 20070114 02:22:51
: (/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now
: 20070114 02:22:53
: (/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now utc
: 20070114 12:52:57
: (/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date now -10:30
: 20070113 15:53:08
: (/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>
:
DATE 20070114 02:22:53 UTC indicates a date/time at the Greenwich Meridian.
The keyword NOW is substituted by the current local date/time; so "DATE NOW
UTC" is kind of a mixed bag.  It means, "if this is what the clock says in
Greenwich, then what time would it be here?", which is the opposite of what
you wanted; see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit80.html#x8.13.3

The way to do what you want is:

  echo \futcdate(now)

or simply:

  echo \futcdate()

I admit, this could be documented better.  On my list!

- Frank

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Its a pity that it can't be made faster. 1 second is too long when I have a 
macro using this numerous times per account.

Anyway, I discovered an oddity.
Is there a problem with INPUT & Kverbs?

On of my macros is trying to use F6 (opens a window for me) but it doesn't 
function if it is by itself.
I have 3 scenarios listed below.

Scenario #1 (my original simple setup)
OUTPUT \Kdecf06
INPUT 1 \Kdecf06
The terminal won't update. In fact it acts like INPUT 0 \Kdecf06. Theres no 
actual pause using 1 rather than 0.

Scenario #2
OUTPUT \Klfarr\Kdecf06
INPUT 1 \Klfarr\Kdecf06
This also doesn't work....still no actual pause or updating.

Scenario #3
OUTPUT \8\Kdecf06
INPUT 1 \8\Kdecf06
This works. I was wondering if Kverbs had complications with this.


I had another macro which uses OUTPUT/INPUT very intensely and occassionally 
it loses it's place, and I think this might be the reason why. The terminal 
doesn't seem to always update when it should. Its going to take me about an 
hour to verify if all my statements are being processed correctly, but 
before I do that, I want to know precisely what I'm looking for.




"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:458a9baa$0$5926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> The value is a "timeout" period not a time-you-must-wait-for period.
> You could put 1000 there and it wouldn't make a different provided that
> the data you are looking for actually arrives.  The value is "how long
> should I wait if the pattern I was given does not find a match on the
> incoming data stream?"
>
>
>
> Scott Caissie wrote:
>> That is what my tests today showed.
>> With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about 
>> 50-200
>> times.
>> For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the
>> screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 1 
>> of
>> my projects will need to update the screen twice.
>> I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.
>>
>> Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an instaneous
>> forced update command.
>> That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.
>>
>> But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.
>>
>> - Scott
>>
>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the
>>>> way
>>>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command
>>>> before,
>>>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically 
>>>> mirroring
>>>> my
>>>> actions.
>>>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
>>>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to
>>>> see
>>>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>>>
>>>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>>>> set input echo off
>>>> clear input-buffer
>>>> define vega {
>>>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>>>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>>>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
>>> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process
>>> data.
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>
>> 



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What are you expecting

   OUTPUT \Kdecf06
   INPUT <n> \Kdecf06

to do?

Since keyboard escape sequences are not going to be echo'd back to the
terminal for input processing, it is the equivalent of

   INPUT <n> "some string that is never ever going to come"

You use the INPUT command to wait for the sequence that the host sends
in response to the sequence you sent with OUTPUT.



Scott Caissie wrote:
> Its a pity that it can't be made faster. 1 second is too long when I have a 
> macro using this numerous times per account.
> 
> Anyway, I discovered an oddity.
> Is there a problem with INPUT & Kverbs?
> 
> On of my macros is trying to use F6 (opens a window for me) but it doesn't 
> function if it is by itself.
> I have 3 scenarios listed below.
> 
> Scenario #1 (my original simple setup)
> OUTPUT \Kdecf06
> INPUT 1 \Kdecf06
> The terminal won't update. In fact it acts like INPUT 0 \Kdecf06. Theres no 
> actual pause using 1 rather than 0.
> 
> Scenario #2
> OUTPUT \Klfarr\Kdecf06
> INPUT 1 \Klfarr\Kdecf06
> This also doesn't work....still no actual pause or updating.
> 
> Scenario #3
> OUTPUT \8\Kdecf06
> INPUT 1 \8\Kdecf06
> This works. I was wondering if Kverbs had complications with this.
> 
> 
> I had another macro which uses OUTPUT/INPUT very intensely and occassionally 
> it loses it's place, and I think this might be the reason why. The terminal 
> doesn't seem to always update when it should. Its going to take me about an 
> hour to verify if all my statements are being processed correctly, but 
> before I do that, I want to know precisely what I'm looking for.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
> news:458a9baa$0$5926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> The value is a "timeout" period not a time-you-must-wait-for period.
>> You could put 1000 there and it wouldn't make a different provided that
>> the data you are looking for actually arrives.  The value is "how long
>> should I wait if the pattern I was given does not find a match on the
>> incoming data stream?"
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>> That is what my tests today showed.
>>> With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about 
>>> 50-200
>>> times.
>>> For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the
>>> screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 1 
>>> of
>>> my projects will need to update the screen twice.
>>> I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.
>>>
>>> Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an instaneous
>>> forced update command.
>>> That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.
>>>
>>> But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Scott
>>>
>>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much the
>>>>> way
>>>>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command
>>>>> before,
>>>>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically 
>>>>> mirroring
>>>>> my
>>>>> actions.
>>>>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 <text>?
>>>>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check to
>>>>> see
>>>>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>>>>
>>>>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>>>>> set input echo off
>>>>> clear input-buffer
>>>>> define vega {
>>>>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>>>>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>>>>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
>>>> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process
>>>> data.
>>>>
>>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>>
> 
> 

From scottac@nb.sympatico.ca Fri Jan 19 11:23:56 2007
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I'm looking for a "simplier" way to force a variable of mixed character 
length to a fixed character length.
For this project, I always want to have MORE characters than the actual 
variable's size. So I'm trying to add in spaces. Thats my problem. Making it 
less is easy.

Example from my project:
.q_formatted := \fstripx(\fsubstr(\m(getdata),1,13),\9)
The saved value has up to 13 characters, but mostly it has less.
For testing purposes, I'm trying to fixate the saved character length to 20.

The reasoning for doing this, is that I want to save a multitude of values 
into 1 entry within an Array. And by it's character position, other macros 
can determine what the value is represents.

The end result would be:
Characters 1-20 = First value
Characters 21-25 = Second value
Characters 26-30 = Thrid value
Characters 31-32 = Forth value
Characters 33-36 = Fifth value
Characters 37-40 = Sixth value
Characters 41-44 = Seveth value

I can technically do it, but I'm sure I'm going about it the wrong way.
Below is an example I just typed up. It wasn't tested yet.
All it does (or should do), is check for the length difference and use the 
repeat function to add in spaces for the remainder.

.q_formatted := \fstripx(\fsubstr(\m(getdata),1,13),\9)
if < \flength(\fstripx(\fsubstr(\m(getdata),1,13),\9)) 20 {
.q_formatted := 
\m(q_formatted)\frepeat(\32,\feval(20-\flength(\fstripx(\fsubstr(\m(getdata),1,13),\9))))
}

* I'm not at a computer which has the K95 system on it right now so that 
example I just gave might have improper syntax. I can't recall if its 
\frepeat(text,integer) or \frepeat(integer,text).

- Scott 



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On 2007-01-19, Scott Caissie <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
:
: I'm looking for a "simplier" way to force a variable of mixed character
: length to a fixed character length.
:
: For this project, I always want to have MORE characters than the actual
: variable's size. So I'm trying to add in spaces. Thats my problem. Making
: it less is easy.
:
: Example from my project:
: .q_formatted := \fstripx(\fsubstr(\m(getdata),1,13),\9)
: The saved value has up to 13 characters, but mostly it has less.  For
: testing purposes, I'm trying to fixate the saved character length to 20.
:
You can use \flpad() ("Left Pad") and/or \frpad() ("Right Pad") for this.
For example, suppose that if a string "foo" is less than 20 bytes long, you
want to fill it out on the right with underscores:

  .foo := .\frpad(\m(foo),20,_)

If the string already is 20 or more bytes long, nothing happens to it.
To fill the string out with spaces, use either one of these forms:

  .foo := .\frpad(\m(foo),20,\32)
  .foo := .\frpad(\m(foo),20)

: The reasoning for doing this, is that I want to save a multitude of values 
: into 1 entry within an Array. And by it's character position, other macros 
: can determine what the value is represents.
:
You might find some of the programming and data-type extensions presented
here to be useful:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html#oops

For example this one:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/ckermit/matrix

shows how to create and use multidimensional arrays.

- Frank

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I expect these commands to send and process the F6 key to the Terminal. The 
Terminal (for me) recognizes this as the Function Key for opening up various 
windows.

And the command does in fact work. It sends out the F6 command to be 
processed by the Terminal.... but not when its alone. Its works as expected 
when its proceeded by a non-\Kverb. So I just throw in non-harmful keys in 
front of some of my sequences to guarantee that it will run properly.

That sounds very much like a bug.


"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:45b0c5ad$0$7740$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> What are you expecting
>
>   OUTPUT \Kdecf06
>   INPUT <n> \Kdecf06
>
> to do?
>
> Since keyboard escape sequences are not going to be echo'd back to the
> terminal for input processing, it is the equivalent of
>
>   INPUT <n> "some string that is never ever going to come"
>
> You use the INPUT command to wait for the sequence that the host sends
> in response to the sequence you sent with OUTPUT.
>
>
>
> Scott Caissie wrote:
>> Its a pity that it can't be made faster. 1 second is too long when I have 
>> a
>> macro using this numerous times per account.
>>
>> Anyway, I discovered an oddity.
>> Is there a problem with INPUT & Kverbs?
>>
>> On of my macros is trying to use F6 (opens a window for me) but it 
>> doesn't
>> function if it is by itself.
>> I have 3 scenarios listed below.
>>
>> Scenario #1 (my original simple setup)
>> OUTPUT \Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \Kdecf06
>> The terminal won't update. In fact it acts like INPUT 0 \Kdecf06. Theres 
>> no
>> actual pause using 1 rather than 0.
>>
>> Scenario #2
>> OUTPUT \Klfarr\Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \Klfarr\Kdecf06
>> This also doesn't work....still no actual pause or updating.
>>
>> Scenario #3
>> OUTPUT \8\Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \8\Kdecf06
>> This works. I was wondering if Kverbs had complications with this.
>>
>>
>> I had another macro which uses OUTPUT/INPUT very intensely and 
>> occassionally
>> it loses it's place, and I think this might be the reason why. The 
>> terminal
>> doesn't seem to always update when it should. Its going to take me about 
>> an
>> hour to verify if all my statements are being processed correctly, but
>> before I do that, I want to know precisely what I'm looking for.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:458a9baa$0$5926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> The value is a "timeout" period not a time-you-must-wait-for period.
>>> You could put 1000 there and it wouldn't make a different provided that
>>> the data you are looking for actually arrives.  The value is "how long
>>> should I wait if the pattern I was given does not find a match on the
>>> incoming data stream?"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>> That is what my tests today showed.
>>>> With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about
>>>> 50-200
>>>> times.
>>>> For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the
>>>> screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 
>>>> 1
>>>> of
>>>> my projects will need to update the screen twice.
>>>> I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an 
>>>> instaneous
>>>> forced update command.
>>>> That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.
>>>>
>>>> But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> - Scott
>>>>
>>>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>>>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command
>>>>>> before,
>>>>>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically
>>>>>> mirroring
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> actions.
>>>>>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 
>>>>>> <text>?
>>>>>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> see
>>>>>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>>>>>> set input echo off
>>>>>> clear input-buffer
>>>>>> define vega {
>>>>>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>>>>>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>>>>>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
>>>>> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>>>
>>
>> 



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I expect these commands to send and process the F6 key to the Terminal. The 
Terminal (for me) recognizes this as the Function Key for opening up various 
windows.

And the command does in fact work. It sends out the F6 command to be 
processed by the Terminal.... but not when its alone. Its works as expected 
when its proceeded by a non-\Kverb. So I just throw in non-harmful keys in 
front of some of my sequences to guarantee that it will run properly.

That sounds very much like a bug.


"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:45b0c5ad$0$7740$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> What are you expecting
>
>   OUTPUT \Kdecf06
>   INPUT <n> \Kdecf06
>
> to do?
>
> Since keyboard escape sequences are not going to be echo'd back to the
> terminal for input processing, it is the equivalent of
>
>   INPUT <n> "some string that is never ever going to come"
>
> You use the INPUT command to wait for the sequence that the host sends
> in response to the sequence you sent with OUTPUT.
>
>
>
> Scott Caissie wrote:
>> Its a pity that it can't be made faster. 1 second is too long when I have 
>> a
>> macro using this numerous times per account.
>>
>> Anyway, I discovered an oddity.
>> Is there a problem with INPUT & Kverbs?
>>
>> On of my macros is trying to use F6 (opens a window for me) but it 
>> doesn't
>> function if it is by itself.
>> I have 3 scenarios listed below.
>>
>> Scenario #1 (my original simple setup)
>> OUTPUT \Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \Kdecf06
>> The terminal won't update. In fact it acts like INPUT 0 \Kdecf06. Theres 
>> no
>> actual pause using 1 rather than 0.
>>
>> Scenario #2
>> OUTPUT \Klfarr\Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \Klfarr\Kdecf06
>> This also doesn't work....still no actual pause or updating.
>>
>> Scenario #3
>> OUTPUT \8\Kdecf06
>> INPUT 1 \8\Kdecf06
>> This works. I was wondering if Kverbs had complications with this.
>>
>>
>> I had another macro which uses OUTPUT/INPUT very intensely and 
>> occassionally
>> it loses it's place, and I think this might be the reason why. The 
>> terminal
>> doesn't seem to always update when it should. Its going to take me about 
>> an
>> hour to verify if all my statements are being processed correctly, but
>> before I do that, I want to know precisely what I'm looking for.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:458a9baa$0$5926$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> The value is a "timeout" period not a time-you-must-wait-for period.
>>> You could put 1000 there and it wouldn't make a different provided that
>>> the data you are looking for actually arrives.  The value is "how long
>>> should I wait if the pattern I was given does not find a match on the
>>> incoming data stream?"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>> That is what my tests today showed.
>>>> With this, I'll have macros that will be running in a loop for about
>>>> 50-200
>>>> times.
>>>> For each, I need only one "INPUT 1" statement at the end to update the
>>>> screen. Up until that point, using a multitude of INPUT 0s works fine. 
>>>> 1
>>>> of
>>>> my projects will need to update the screen twice.
>>>> I ran one today a few times in a loop of 119 times. Worked perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> Though I wish you could allow for fractions of a second. Or an 
>>>> instaneous
>>>> forced update command.
>>>> That would be my wish list for Version 3.0.
>>>>
>>>> But this so far has helped me a lot. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> - Scott
>>>>
>>>> "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:4589b00f$0$16922$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>> Scott Caissie wrote:
>>>>>> I see. I've been testing this out all day, and it works pretty much 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> I was aiming for.  I was never referred to using the INPUT command
>>>>>> before,
>>>>>> and to be honest, I don't understand it 100% yet. I'm basically
>>>>>> mirroring
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> actions.
>>>>>> I do have a question. Is there restrictions about using INPUT 0 
>>>>>> <text>?
>>>>>> This example works fine, but if I use INPUT 0 etc, it won't. I check 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> see
>>>>>> if it works by using \Fscrnstr(y,x,n) on a large scale.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SET INPUT TERMINAL ON
>>>>>> set input echo off
>>>>>> clear input-buffer
>>>>>> define vega {
>>>>>> ..LZ_PRO := \Fscrnstr(0,6,8)
>>>>>> OUTPUT \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>>> INPUT 1 \5\5\5\5\5\5\5\5\57\49\13\49\52\13\m(LZ_PRO)\24
>>>>>> for \%t 1 24 1 {
>>>>>> echo \Fscrnstr(\%t,0,79)
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>> If you use "INPUT 0 <text>" you are not reading any data from the
>>>>> connection.  You must use a timeout greater than 0 in order to process
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>>>
>>
>> 



From trosien@gmail.com Wed Jan 24 14:09:14 2007
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From: trosien@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Simple ESC sequences send a lowercase letter instead of uppercase when using ibm3151 emulation
Date: 24 Jan 2007 10:53:17 -0800
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15633

I have Kermit v2.1.3 and have notice that when using the ibm3151
emulation that when trying to send an ESC X where X is any capital
letter, that what gets transmitted is actually the lowercase of the
same letter.

I was trying to map the Gray Delete key to send \{27}\{81}      i.e.
(ESCQ) which is what a host is expecting to see for DEL as opposed to
the Kermit default of \{127}.  When sending ESCQ what actually gets
sent on the wire is ESCq with any single letter coming after the ESC
getting translated to lowercase.

Any ideas why the case conversion occurs?  other emulations I tried
seem to be fine, but not ibm3151.  This occurs with any simple
uppercase ESC X call thought other more complex calls are fine.   An
attempt to send ESCQQ which transmits as ESCQQ so my workaround right
now is to map the del to use an artificially complex sequence by adding
offsetting right and left cursor moves to get it to work.

set term key ibm3151 /literal \4398 \{27}\{81}\krtarr\klfarr

Hope this helps someone and perhaps the reason for this can be
discovered and or fixed should another release of Kermit be issued.
Hope this helps someone.  anyone have any ideas why it happens tho?

Have a GREAT day!


From fdc@panix.com Wed Jan 24 14:23:19 2007
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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Simple ESC sequences send a lowercase letter instead of uppercase when using ibm3151 emulation
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15634

On 2007-01-24, trosien@gmail.com <trosien@gmail.com> wrote:
: I have Kermit v2.1.3 and have notice that when using the ibm3151
: emulation that when trying to send an ESC X where X is any capital
: letter, that what gets transmitted is actually the lowercase of the
: same letter.
:
: I was trying to map the Gray Delete key to send \{27}\{81}      i.e.
: (ESCQ) which is what a host is expecting to see for DEL as opposed to
: the Kermit default of \{127}.  When sending ESCQ what actually gets
: sent on the wire is ESCq with any single letter coming after the ESC
: getting translated to lowercase.
:
: Any ideas why the case conversion occurs?  other emulations I tried
: seem to be fine, but not ibm3151.  This occurs with any simple
: uppercase ESC X call thought other more complex calls are fine.   An
: attempt to send ESCQQ which transmits as ESCQQ so my workaround right
: now is to map the del to use an artificially complex sequence by adding
: offsetting right and left cursor moves to get it to work.
:
: set term key ibm3151 /literal \4398 \{27}\{81}\krtarr\klfarr
:
: Hope this helps someone and perhaps the reason for this can be
: discovered and or fixed should another release of Kermit be issued.
: Hope this helps someone.  anyone have any ideas why it happens tho?
:
We've known about this bug for some time; it's listed in:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/k95/newbugs.txt

as Bug #723.  As noted there, it is fixed in the next release; which is
discussed here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95next.html

A copy of K95 patched to fix this bug is available as described here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/support.html

- Frank

From arthur.marsh@internode.on.net Tue Jan 30 14:13:31 2007
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From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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Organization: BigPond Internet Services
Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15635

Please respond if you see this posting.

I've been using C-Kermit to query my ISP's news server. My local 
timezone is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC.

Once connected, I hit enter once, then issue the command

date

then enter, then


quit

then enter, to return back to the C-Kermit prompt:


C-Kermit 8.0.212 Dev.26, 20 Dec 2006, for Linux
  Copyright (C) 1985, 2006,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>set telnet wait off
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:13
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>telnet news.bigpond.com nntp
  DNS Lookup...  Trying 61.9.191.5...  Reverse DNS Lookup... (OK)
Connecting to host news-server.bigpond.net.au:119
  Escape character: Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS): enabled
Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
or followed by ? to see other options.
----------------------------------------------------
200 Welcome to BigPond Broadband - http://www.telstra.com/ (Typhoon 
v2.0.4.336)

500 Syntax Error or Unknown Command
date
111 20070128130858
quit
205 GoodBye

Communications disconnect (Back at localhost)
----------------------------------------------------
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:33
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>q
amarsh04@victoria:~$

[end quote]

This illustrates that the news server's clock is running about 35 
minutes fast.

Arthur.

From dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca Tue Jan 30 14:14:11 2007
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:31:17 -0600
From: "Don Lewis" <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: record length translate
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:31:42 -0500
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15636

I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
Thanks,
Don Lewis 



From fdc@panix.com Tue Jan 30 14:20:19 2007
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!not-for-mail
From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: record length translate
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:20:11 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15637

On 2007-01-29, Don Lewis <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote:
: I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
: I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
: page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
: characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
: latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
: that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
: file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
: convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
: breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
: 254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
:
I believe it's just that, in the TRANSLATE command (as in the COPY command),
Kermit just uses regular C library i/o, rather than RMS.  If you transferred
the files unzipped, Kermit could convert the character sets on the fly ("set
file character-set", "set transfer character-set") and store them in a
sensible record format.

There might be a way to force matters using some crazy syntax in the
destination filename, but I don't remember enough about VMS to say for sure.
Of course, any VMS programmers are welcome to take a look at this and jump in.

- Frank

From arthur.marsh@internode.on.net Tue Jan 30 14:13:31 2007
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From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:18:36 EST
Organization: BigPond Internet Services
Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15635

Please respond if you see this posting.

I've been using C-Kermit to query my ISP's news server. My local 
timezone is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC.

Once connected, I hit enter once, then issue the command

date

then enter, then


quit

then enter, to return back to the C-Kermit prompt:


C-Kermit 8.0.212 Dev.26, 20 Dec 2006, for Linux
  Copyright (C) 1985, 2006,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>set telnet wait off
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:13
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>telnet news.bigpond.com nntp
  DNS Lookup...  Trying 61.9.191.5...  Reverse DNS Lookup... (OK)
Connecting to host news-server.bigpond.net.au:119
  Escape character: Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS): enabled
Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
or followed by ? to see other options.
----------------------------------------------------
200 Welcome to BigPond Broadband - http://www.telstra.com/ (Typhoon 
v2.0.4.336)

500 Syntax Error or Unknown Command
date
111 20070128130858
quit
205 GoodBye

Communications disconnect (Back at localhost)
----------------------------------------------------
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:33
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>q
amarsh04@victoria:~$

[end quote]

This illustrates that the news server's clock is running about 35 
minutes fast.

Arthur.

From dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca Tue Jan 30 14:14:11 2007
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.clg.qc.ca!news.clg.qc.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:31:17 -0600
From: "Don Lewis" <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: record length translate
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:31:42 -0500
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15636

I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
Thanks,
Don Lewis 



From fdc@panix.com Tue Jan 30 14:20:19 2007
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!not-for-mail
From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: record length translate
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:20:11 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Reply-To: fdc@columbia.edu
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15637

On 2007-01-29, Don Lewis <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote:
: I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
: I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
: page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
: characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
: latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
: that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
: file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
: convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
: breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
: 254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
:
I believe it's just that, in the TRANSLATE command (as in the COPY command),
Kermit just uses regular C library i/o, rather than RMS.  If you transferred
the files unzipped, Kermit could convert the character sets on the fly ("set
file character-set", "set transfer character-set") and store them in a
sensible record format.

There might be a way to force matters using some crazy syntax in the
destination filename, but I don't remember enough about VMS to say for sure.
Of course, any VMS programmers are welcome to take a look at this and jump in.

- Frank

From arthur.marsh@internode.on.net Tue Jan 30 14:13:31 2007
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:18:36 EST
Organization: BigPond Internet Services
Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15635

Please respond if you see this posting.

I've been using C-Kermit to query my ISP's news server. My local 
timezone is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC.

Once connected, I hit enter once, then issue the command

date

then enter, then


quit

then enter, to return back to the C-Kermit prompt:


C-Kermit 8.0.212 Dev.26, 20 Dec 2006, for Linux
  Copyright (C) 1985, 2006,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>set telnet wait off
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:13
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>telnet news.bigpond.com nntp
  DNS Lookup...  Trying 61.9.191.5...  Reverse DNS Lookup... (OK)
Connecting to host news-server.bigpond.net.au:119
  Escape character: Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS): enabled
Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
or followed by ? to see other options.
----------------------------------------------------
200 Welcome to BigPond Broadband - http://www.telstra.com/ (Typhoon 
v2.0.4.336)

500 Syntax Error or Unknown Command
date
111 20070128130858
quit
205 GoodBye

Communications disconnect (Back at localhost)
----------------------------------------------------
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>date -10:30
20070128 12:33:33
(/home/amarsh04/) C-Kermit>q
amarsh04@victoria:~$

[end quote]

This illustrates that the news server's clock is running about 35 
minutes fast.

Arthur.

From dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca Tue Jan 30 14:14:11 2007
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.clg.qc.ca!news.clg.qc.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:31:17 -0600
From: "Don Lewis" <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: record length translate
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:31:42 -0500
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I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
Thanks,
Don Lewis 



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On 2007-01-29, Don Lewis <dlewis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote:
: I'm using Kermit 8.0.209 under VMS 7.3-2
: I receive a ziped archive of files which are created on a system using code 
: page 850.  I need the data to be iso-latin1. Kermit translates the 
: characters correctly using the command translate source-file cp850 
: latin1-iso translated-file.  The problem is that Kermit breaks up records 
: that are longer than 254 bytes into multiple 254 byte records.  The incoming 
: file is defined as stream_lf with carriage return carriage control.  I can 
: convert the file to variable with a declared record length, but Kermit still 
: breaks up long records.  Is there a setting to change this behavior, or is 
: 254 bytes a Kermit limitation?
:
I believe it's just that, in the TRANSLATE command (as in the COPY command),
Kermit just uses regular C library i/o, rather than RMS.  If you transferred
the files unzipped, Kermit could convert the character sets on the fly ("set
file character-set", "set transfer character-set") and store them in a
sensible record format.

There might be a way to force matters using some crazy syntax in the
destination filename, but I don't remember enough about VMS to say for sure.
Of course, any VMS programmers are welcome to take a look at this and jump in.

- Frank

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On Feb 14, 10:47 am, Frank Da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> : I am trying to compile kermit 8.0.211 with Solaris 9 (Sparc).  My
> : openssl ver is 0.9.8d
> :
> : Makeline: make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
> :...
> : /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:336: error: parse error before
> : numeric constant
> :
> Like it says in the makefile in the comments on that makefile target:
>
>   #Add -DOPENSSL_097 for OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.
>
> So use:
>
>   make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097
>
> If somebody knows a way to get the OpenSSL version number from the shell
> command line, we could have the makefile figure this out automatically.
>
> - Frank

I tried the above make line but I get the exact same error.

Thanks
Gary


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Hi, I was wondering if the K95 2.1.3 system has any commands that can make 
any sense of Excel documents.
At the very least, being able to properly detect rows & columns, and 
possibly the page number.

For the time being I have been copy and pasting from Excel into Notepad then 
running a macro through it using \fsplit() to delimit using tabs (\9) to get 
data off the proper columns. This process works but is problematic.

- Scott 



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Scott Caissie wrote, On 15/02/07 17:49:
> Hi, I was wondering if the K95 2.1.3 system has any commands that can make 
> any sense of Excel documents.
> At the very least, being able to properly detect rows & columns, and 
> possibly the page number.
> 
> For the time being I have been copy and pasting from Excel into Notepad then 
> running a macro through it using \fsplit() to delimit using tabs (\9) to get 
> data off the proper columns. This process works but is problematic.
> 
> - Scott 
> 
> 

I would try using OpenOffice.org's command-line options to export from 
an .xls spreadsheet to some decent delimited text format, then import it 
into K95.

Arthur.

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On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquiring@gmail.com> wrote:
: On Feb 14, 10:47 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> : I am trying to compile kermit 8.0.211 with Solaris 9 (Sparc).  My
:> : openssl ver is 0.9.8d
:> :
:> : Makeline: make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
:> :...
:> : /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:336: error: parse error before
:> : numeric constant
:> :
:> Like it says in the makefile in the comments on that makefile target:
:>
:>   #Add -DOPENSSL_097 for OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.
:>
:> So use:
:>
:>   make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097
:>
:> If somebody knows a way to get the OpenSSL version number from the shell
:> command line, we could have the makefile figure this out automatically.
:>
:> - Frank
:
: I tried the above make line but I get the exact same error.
:
I have Solaris 9 here, with OpenSSL 0.9.8d, and "It Works For Me" (TM).

To build C-Kermit with OpenSSL, you need to use one of the appropriate
makefile targets (which you did), plus:

 . If the OpenSSL version is 0.9.7 or greater (a point where the API
   changed), you have to add -DOPENSSL_097 to CFLAGS (which can be
   done as shown above);

 . If the OpenSSL header files are not in /usr/local/ssl/include, you
   have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
   or SSLINCL in the makefile.

 . If the OpenSSL libraries are not in /usr/local/ssl/lib, you
   have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
   or SSLLIB in the makefile.

At Columbia, we have to do all these things, because around here (or maybe in
Solaris in general) "/usr/local" is "deprecated": Here is the procedure:

  export SSLINC=-I/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/include
  export SSLLIB=-L/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/lib
  export "KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
  make -e solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
 
- Frank

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On Feb 15, 12:22 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> : On Feb 14, 10:47 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> :> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :> : I am trying to compile kermit 8.0.211 with Solaris 9 (Sparc).  My
> :> : openssl ver is 0.9.8d
> :> :
> :> : Makeline: make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
> :> :...
> :> : /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:336: error: parse error before
> :> : numeric constant
> :> :
> :> Like it says in the makefile in the comments on that makefile target:
> :>
> :>   #Add -DOPENSSL_097 for OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.
> :>
> :> So use:
> :>
> :>   make solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097
> :>
> :> If somebody knows a way to get the OpenSSL version number from the shell
> :> command line, we could have the makefile figure this out automatically.
> :>
> :> - Frank
> :
> : I tried the above make line but I get the exact same error.
> :
> I have Solaris 9 here, with OpenSSL 0.9.8d, and "It Works For Me" (TM).
>
> To build C-Kermit with OpenSSL, you need to use one of the appropriate
> makefile targets (which you did), plus:
>
>  . If the OpenSSL version is 0.9.7 or greater (a point where the API
>    changed), you have to add -DOPENSSL_097 to CFLAGS (which can be
>    done as shown above);
>
>  . If the OpenSSL header files are not in /usr/local/ssl/include, you
>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
>    or SSLINCL in the makefile.
>
>  . If the OpenSSL libraries are not in /usr/local/ssl/lib, you
>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
>    or SSLLIB in the makefile.
>
> At Columbia, we have to do all these things, because around here (or maybe in
> Solaris in general) "/usr/local" is "deprecated": Here is the procedure:
>
>   export SSLINC=-I/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/include
>   export SSLLIB=-L/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/lib
>   export "KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
>   make -e solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
>
> - Frank

Still no luck.  My SSL location is /usr/local/ssl.  I set the
following:

export SSLINC="-l/usr/local/ssl/include"
export SSLLIB="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
export KFLAGS="-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"

Why is ck_ssl.h hardcoded for openssl directory?  I made a link for
openssl -> ssl in /usr/local but it still didn't work.

Thanks
Gary

make -e solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
make "MAKE=make" solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow \
KTARGET=${KTARGET:-solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib} \
"KFLAGS=-DSOLARIS9 -DHDBUUCP -DDIRENT -DZLIB -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW \
-DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" "LIBS= -
lpam -ldes
425 -lz "
make[1]: Entering directory `/u/local/src/kermitssl'
Making C-Kermit "8.0.211" for Solaris 2.x with gcc, OpenSSL...
Please read the comments that accompany the solaris2xg target.
make xermit KTARGET=${KTARGET:-solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow}
CC=gcc CC2=gc
c \
"CFLAGS = -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX -DSELECT -DFNFLOAT \
-DCK_CURSES -DCK_NEWTERM -DDIRENT -DHDBUUCP -DTCPSOCKET \
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW  -DZLIB \
-DBIGBUFOK -l/usr/local/ssl/include -DSOLARIS9 -DHDBUUCP -DDIRENT -
DZLIB -DCK_PA
M -DCK_SHADOW  -DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -
D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" \
"LIBS= -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ltermlib \
-lsocket -lnsl -lm -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto -lpam -lz"
make[2]: Entering directory `/u/local/src/kermitssl'
gcc -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX -DSELECT -DFNFLOAT  -
DCK_CURSES -DCK
_NEWTERM -DDIRENT -DHDBUUCP -DTCPSOCKET  -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -
DCK_PAM -
DCK_SHADOW  -DZLIB  -DBIGBUFOK -l/usr/local/ssl/include -DSOLARIS9 -
DHDBUUCP -DD
IRENT -DZLIB -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW  -DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097 -
DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE
_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DKTARGET=\"solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib\" -c
ckcmai.c
In file included from ckcmai.c:607:
ck_ssl.h:35:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:42:25: openssl/des.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:43:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:44:28: openssl/x509v3.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:45:26: openssl/rand.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:46:30: openssl/x509_vfy.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:47:25: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:48:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:49:24: openssl/bn.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:50:30: openssl/blowfish.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:51:24: openssl/dh.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:52:25: openssl/rc4.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:53:26: openssl/cast.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:54:25: openssl/dsa.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:55:25: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:56:25: openssl/md5.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:57:25: openssl/sha.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:58:25: openssl/evp.h: No such file or directory
ck_ssl.h:59:26: openssl/hmac.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ckcmai.c:607:
ck_ssl.h:64: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:64: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:65: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:65: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:66: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:66: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:90: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:90: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:91: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:91: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:95: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:95: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:98: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:98: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:99: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:99: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ck_ssl.h:109: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:110: error: parse error before "X509_STORE_CTX"
ck_ssl.h:111: error: parse error before "X509_STORE_CTX"
ck_ssl.h:116: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:117: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:118: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:119: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:120: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:124: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:125: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:126: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:127: error: parse error before "X509_STORE_CTX"
ck_ssl.h:129: error: parse error before '*' token
ck_ssl.h:130: error: parse error before '*' token
make[2]: *** [ckcmai.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/local/src/kermitssl'
make[1]: *** [solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/local/src/kermitssl'
make: *** [solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib] Error 2


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On 2007-02-16, Gary Quiring <gquiring@gmail.com> wrote:
: On Feb 15, 12:22 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> : On Feb 14, 10:47 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:> :> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> :> : I am trying to compile kermit 8.0.211 with Solaris 9 (Sparc).  My
:> :> : openssl ver is 0.9.8d
:> ....
:> :
:> I have Solaris 9 here, with OpenSSL 0.9.8d, and "It Works For Me" (TM).
:>
:> To build C-Kermit with OpenSSL, you need to use one of the appropriate
:> makefile targets (which you did), plus:
:>
:>  . If the OpenSSL version is 0.9.7 or greater (a point where the API
:>    changed), you have to add -DOPENSSL_097 to CFLAGS (which can be
:>    done as shown above);
:>
:>  . If the OpenSSL header files are not in /usr/local/ssl/include, you
:>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
:>    or SSLINCL in the makefile.
:>
:>  . If the OpenSSL libraries are not in /usr/local/ssl/lib, you
:>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
:>    or SSLLIB in the makefile.
:>
:> At Columbia, we have to do all these things, because around here (or maybe
:> in Solaris in general) "/usr/local" is "deprecated": Here is the procedure:
:>
:>   export SSLINC=-I/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/include
:>   export SSLLIB=-L/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/lib
:>   export "KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
:>   make -e solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
:>
:> - Frank
:
: Still no luck.  My SSL location is /usr/local/ssl.  I set the
: following:
:
: export SSLINC="-l/usr/local/ssl/include"
: export SSLLIB="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
:
Well, this should be unnecessary because it's the default.

: export KFLAGS="-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
:
: Why is ck_ssl.h hardcoded for openssl directory?  I made a link for
: openssl -> ssl in /usr/local but it still didn't work.
:
See below.  Not to get off on a tangent, but after decades already of dealing
with the headaches of dealing with hardwired Unix (or DOS, or Windows, for
that matter) directory names that are constantly changing makes me ever more
nostalgic for the the "logical name" concept that was so effective in TOPS-10,
TOPS-20, and to this day in VMS.

: gcc -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX (etc etc...)
: ckcmai.c
: In file included from ckcmai.c:607:
: ck_ssl.h:35:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
: ck_ssl.h:42:25: openssl/des.h: No such file or directory
: ck_ssl.h:43:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
: (etc etc)
:

Let's see.  You've told the compiler to look for include files in
/usr/local/ssl/include.  That directory should contain an openssl directory,
which, in turn, contains all the .h files.  If so, the build should work for
you if you just do it like this (since your ssl tree is already in the
default location):

  make KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib

- Frank

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On Feb 16, 3:52 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2007-02-16, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> : On Feb 15, 12:22 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> :> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :> : On Feb 14, 10:47 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> :> :> On 2007-02-14, Gary Quiring <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :> :> : I am trying to compile kermit 8.0.211 with Solaris 9 (Sparc).  My
> :> :> : openssl ver is 0.9.8d
> :> ....
> :> :
> :> I have Solaris 9 here, with OpenSSL 0.9.8d, and "It Works For Me" (TM).
> :>
> :> To build C-Kermit with OpenSSL, you need to use one of the appropriate
> :> makefile targets (which you did), plus:
> :>
> :>  . If the OpenSSL version is 0.9.7 or greater (a point where the API
> :>    changed), you have to add -DOPENSSL_097 to CFLAGS (which can be
> :>    done as shown above);
> :>
> :>  . If the OpenSSL header files are not in /usr/local/ssl/include, you
> :>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
> :>    or SSLINCL in the makefile.
> :>
> :>  . If the OpenSSL libraries are not in /usr/local/ssl/lib, you
> :>    have to change or override the definitions of "prefix" or "sslroot"
> :>    or SSLLIB in the makefile.
> :>
> :> At Columbia, we have to do all these things, because around here (or maybe
> :> in Solaris in general) "/usr/local" is "deprecated": Here is the procedure:
> :>
> :>   export SSLINC=-I/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/include
> :>   export SSLLIB=-L/opt/openssl-0.9.8d/lib
> :>   export "KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> :>   make -e solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
> :>
> :> - Frank
> :
> : Still no luck.  My SSL location is /usr/local/ssl.  I set the
> : following:
> :
> : export SSLINC="-l/usr/local/ssl/include"
> : export SSLLIB="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
> :
> Well, this should be unnecessary because it's the default.
>
> : export KFLAGS="-DOPENSSL_097 -DCK_FORWARD_X -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> :
> : Why is ck_ssl.h hardcoded for openssl directory?  I made a link for
> : openssl -> ssl in /usr/local but it still didn't work.
> :
> See below.  Not to get off on a tangent, but after decades already of dealing
> with the headaches of dealing with hardwired Unix (or DOS, or Windows, for
> that matter) directory names that are constantly changing makes me ever more
> nostalgic for the the "logical name" concept that was so effective in TOPS-10,
> TOPS-20, and to this day in VMS.
>
> : gcc -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX (etc etc...)
> : ckcmai.c
> : In file included from ckcmai.c:607:
> : ck_ssl.h:35:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
> : ck_ssl.h:42:25: openssl/des.h: No such file or directory
> : ck_ssl.h:43:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
> : (etc etc)
> :
>
> Let's see.  You've told the compiler to look for include files in
> /usr/local/ssl/include.  That directory should contain an openssl directory,
> which, in turn, contains all the .h files.  If so, the build should work for
> you if you just do it like this (since your ssl tree is already in the
> default location):
>
>   make KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
>
> - Frank

Same error:

make KFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_097 solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib
make "MAKE=make" solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow \
KTARGET=${KTARGET:-solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib} \
"KFLAGS=-DSOLARIS9 -DHDBUUCP -DDIRENT -DZLIB -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW \
-DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097" "LIBS= -lpam -ldes425 -lz "
make[1]: Entering directory `/u/local/src/kerm'
Making C-Kermit "8.0.211" for Solaris 2.x with gcc, OpenSSL...
Please read the comments that accompany the solaris2xg target.
make xermit KTARGET=${KTARGET:-solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow}
CC=gcc CC2=gc
c \
"CFLAGS = -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX -DSELECT -DFNFLOAT \
-DCK_CURSES -DCK_NEWTERM -DDIRENT -DHDBUUCP -DTCPSOCKET \
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW  -DZLIB \
-DBIGBUFOK -I/usr/local/ssl/include -DSOLARIS9 -DHDBUUCP -DDIRENT -
DZLIB -DCK_PA
M -DCK_SHADOW  -DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097" \
"LIBS= -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ltermlib \
-lsocket -lnsl -lm -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto -lpam -lz"
make[2]: Entering directory `/u/local/src/kerm'
gcc -g -O -Usun -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS -DSTERMIOX -DSELECT -DFNFLOAT  -
DCK_CURSES -DCK
_NEWTERM -DDIRENT -DHDBUUCP -DTCPSOCKET  -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -
DCK_PAM -
DCK_SHADOW  -DZLIB  -DBIGBUFOK -I/usr/local/ssl/include -DSOLARIS9 -
DHDBUUCP -DD
IRENT -DZLIB -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW  -DLIBDES -DOPENSSL_097 -DKTARGET=
\"solaris9g+
openssl+shadow+pam+zlib\" -c ckcmai.c
In file included from /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/x509.h:96,
                from /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/ssl.h:183,
                from ck_ssl.h:43,
                from ckcmai.c:607:
/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:335: error: parse error before
numeric constant
/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:336: error: parse error before
numeric constant
make[2]: *** [ckcmai.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/local/src/kerm'
make[1]: *** [solaris2xg+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/local/src/kerm'
make: *** [solaris9g+openssl+shadow+pam+zlib] Error 2


From fdc@panix.com Wed Feb 21 12:55:03 2007
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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: SSL Solaris 9 compile errors
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: Same error:
:
There are two things to consider:

 1. Where are the SSL header files and libs?
 2. What version of SSL is it?

The Kermit makefile has defaults which, like all defaults, don't work
for everybody.  It gives you a means to override the defaults.  But I can't
see your Solaris system, I don't know what is what, or where.  You have to:

 1. Indicate to the makefile where to find the SSL header files and libs.
 2. Include the -DOPENSSL_097 defintion if these header files and
    libs are OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.

Here is the relevant section of the makefile:

# You can build these targets if you have the Kermit source files and the
# required libraries (Kerberos, OpenSSL, SRP, etc) and header files.  See:
#   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/security.html
# for specific details regarding supported versions.
#
# NOTE: OpenSSL 0.9.6 and earlier are not compatible with 0.9.7 and later.
# C-Kermit code is designed for 0.9.6.  To build with 0.9.7 you must add
# -DOPENSSL_097 to avoid missing symbols in the DES library and to use the
# entry points that were renamed to avoid conflict with Kerberos 4.
#
# In OpenSSL builds add -ldl if you get unresolved references for
# dlopen, dlclose, dlsym, and/or dlerror.
#
# The following symbols are used to specify library and header file locations
# Redefine them to the values used on your system by:
# . editing this file
# . defining the values on the command line
# . defining the values in the environment and use the -e option
#
prefix  = /usr/local
srproot = $(prefix)
sslroot = $(prefix)
manroot = $(prefix)

K4LIB=-L/usr/kerberos/lib
K4INC=-I/usr/kerberos/include
K5LIB=-L/usr/kerberos/lib
K5INC=-I/usr/kerberos/include
SRPLIB=-L$(srproot)/lib
SRPINC=-I$(srproot)/include
SSLLIB=-L$(sslroot)/ssl/lib
SSLINC=-I$(sslroot)/ssl/include

- Frank

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Subject: Re: SSL Solaris 9 compile errors
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On 2007-02-21, Gary Quiring <gquiring@gmail.com> wrote:
: I am 100% confused.  Are you saying it can't find my SSL include and
: header files?  Because the errors says it can't parse the contents of
: the file which means it is finding the stuff right?
:
It is finding SOME ssl header files and getting parse errors.  The only
reasons I know of that this would happen are:

 1. The files are from OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later but you have not included
    -DOPENSSL_097 in the compiler flags; or:

 2. The files are from OpenSSL 0.9.6 or earlier but you have included
    the -DOPENSSL_097 flag.

: My SSL (0.9.8d) directory structure (/usr/local/ssl):
:
: bin
: certs
: include/openssl
: lib
: man
: misc
: private
:
So the question is, which SSL files is the makefile finding?  If indeed
these files are where you say they are, and indeed they are the SSL version
you say they are, and indeed you have included the -DOPENSSL_097 flag in
the compilation, and indeed you have not pointed the makefile at some other
SSL directory tree, it should work (but there will be a few unavoidable but
harmless warnings in the security modules).

It should work because /usr/local/ is the makefile variable "sslroot"
is defined by default as "/usr/local", which it uses unless you redefine
sslroot, SSLINC, or SSLLIB.

If it doesn't work, then something is not as you described it.

We know that the makefile is finding *some* SSL header files, but cpp
is having a problem with them.  What do you see when you do this:

  ce /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
  grep OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT opensslv.h

What happens if you omit the -DOPENSSL_097 flag, but leave everything else the
same?

Anyway, it will take some trial and error.  You have to make the compiler
flags (presence or absence of -DOPENSSL_097) agree with the OpenSSL version of
the header files that are actually being read by cpp.

- Frank

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As Kermit is not COM aware, you can not control Excel via Kermit.

I have used Autoit (www.autoitscript.com) to interface with Excel via
COM,  in order to compile an app
that takes a .xls file as its input, and generates a .csv or .tab file
as the output.


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On 23 Feb 2007 11:52:22 -0800, "nospam" <stephen.bozarth@gmail.com> wrote:

-As Kermit is not COM aware, you can not control Excel via Kermit.
-
-I have used Autoit (www.autoitscript.com) to interface with Excel via
-COM,  in order to compile an app
-that takes a .xls file as its input, and generates a .csv or .tab file
-as the output.

Useful website - thanks!


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

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>   cd /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
>   grep OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT opensslv.h
>

#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 0.9.8d-fips 28 Sep 2006"
#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006"
#define OPENSSL_VERSION_PTEXT   " part of " OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT

> What happens if you omit the -DOPENSSL_097 flag, but leave everything else the
> same?

With KFLAGS or without KFLAGS I get the exact same error:
In file included from /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/x509.h:96,
                from /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/ssl.h:183,
                from ck_ssl.h:43,
                from ckcmai.c:607:
/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:335: error: parse error before
numeric constant
/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/rsa.h:336: error: parse error before
numeric constant

Frank there has to be some compat issue with Kermit, I got this answer
from someone on the Solaris forum who also had issues:

i've done this with kermit 2.0.11 and openssl 0.9.7l.  i don't know
if
openssl 0.9.8 is supported with kermit 2.0.11.  seems like i found
something on the kermit web site that indicated it was not.

i used the Sun C compiler to do all of the builds.


after building openssl and installing in /usr/local/openssl, here's
what i did to get SSL support in kermit:


In the kermit makefile, uncomment the LNKFLAGS= line.


In the kermit makefile, change the make target named
solaris2xg32+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow as shown


solaris2xg32+openssl+zlib+pam+shadow:
        @echo 'Making C-Kermit $(CKVER) for Solaris 2.x with SUNWspro
cc, OpenSSL...'
        @echo 'Please read the comments that accompany the solaris2xg
target.'
        $(MAKE) xermit KTARGET=$${KTARGET:-$(@)} \
        "CFLAGS = -g -O -Usun -DOPENSSL_097 -DSVR4 -DSOLARIS9 -
DSTERMIOX -DSELECT -DFNFLOAT \
        -DCK_CURSES -DCK_NEWTERM -DDIRENT -DHDBUUCP -DTCPSOCKET \
        -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DCK_SHADOW  -DZLIB \
        -DBIGBUFOK -I/usr/local/openssl/include" \
        "LIBS= -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -ltermlib \
        -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto -lpam -lz"


Edit the file ck_ssl.h and add the line:


#undef EM


in the following location (the newly added line should be line number
42 in the file):


#define OPENSSL_NO_MDC2
#undef EM
#include <openssl/des.h>
#include <openssl/ssl.h>

What does that EM line do?



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By including the 'undef EM' line in ck_ssl.h kermit compiles clean
once I changed openssl to use shared vs static libs.  With shared libs
Kermit still does not compile unless I use the 'undef EM' line.  So
the million dollar question, what does that 'undef EM' do?



From fdc@panix.com Mon Feb 26 15:07:51 2007
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On 2007-02-26, Gary Quiring <gquiring@gmail.com> wrote:
: By including the 'undef EM' line in ck_ssl.h kermit compiles clean
: once I changed openssl to use shared vs static libs.  With shared libs
: Kermit still does not compile unless I use the 'undef EM' line.  So
: the million dollar question, what does that 'undef EM' do?
:
Honestly, I have no idea.  Again, I have Solaris 9 and OpenSSL 0.9.8d here
too, just like you, and I'm building it with Sun CC (not gcc), just like you,
and C-Kermit/SSL builds with no problem.  There is no #define EM anywhere in
the C-Kermit source code, so the #undef must be to undo some conflict between
OpenSSL and Solaris headers.  But in that case, why do you see the problem and
I don't -- nor, as far as I know, anybody else?

I notice that the suggested location for the #undef is right after this:

#ifdef ZLIB
#include <openssl/comp.h>
#endif /* ZLIB */

Maybe comp.h, or something it includes (such as crypto.h), or something
crypto.h includes, or something that one of those includes, and on and on,
is the culprit.

You can build Kermit with SSL but without compression.  Just omit the
-DZLIB switch.  See if that makes a difference.

- Frank

From nihen@nexit.com Tue Feb 27 17:07:26 2007
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I have been asked to add support for Kermit file transfer.
I have found some documentation and a protocol description,
but it would help me a lot with a hex trace of a simple file transfer
with Kermit. Send a file and close the Kermit session.

Thank's for any help.

Hans Erik 



From jaltman@gmail.com Tue Feb 27 17:07:39 2007
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On Feb 27, 12:34 pm, "Hans Erik" <n...@nexit.com> wrote:
> I have been asked to add support for Kermit file transfer.
> I have found some documentation and a protocol description,
> but it would help me a lot with a hex trace of a simple file transfer
> with Kermit. Send a file and close the Kermit session.
>
> Thank's for any help.
>
> Hans Erik

What would help you would be to find a copy of the out of print book
"Kermit: A File Transfer Protocol" by Frank da Cruz.

# ISBN-10: 0932376886
# ISBN-13: 978-0932376886

Looking at hex traces will only result in you getting the protocol
wrong just as so many others have done.

Jeffrey Altman




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I found the book at Amazon, and it will be ordered. But the shipping takes
from UK to Norway takes more or less a week. So a simple hex trace would
give me something to start with.

Thanks,
Hans Erik

"Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman@gmail.com> skrev i melding 
news:1172600426.919128.175150@z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 27, 12:34 pm, "Hans Erik" <n...@nexit.com> wrote:
>> I have been asked to add support for Kermit file transfer.
>> I have found some documentation and a protocol description,
>> but it would help me a lot with a hex trace of a simple file transfer
>> with Kermit. Send a file and close the Kermit session.
>>
>> Thank's for any help.
>>
>> Hans Erik
>
> What would help you would be to find a copy of the out of print book
> "Kermit: A File Transfer Protocol" by Frank da Cruz.
>
> # ISBN-10: 0932376886
> # ISBN-13: 978-0932376886
>
> Looking at hex traces will only result in you getting the protocol
> wrong just as so many others have done.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> 



From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb 27 17:12:03 2007
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On 2007-02-27, Hans Erik <nihen@nexit.com> wrote:
: I found the book at Amazon, and it will be ordered. But the shipping takes
: from UK to Norway takes more or less a week. So a simple hex trace would
: give me something to start with.
:
What is the point of writing a Kermit protocol implementation from
scratch?  Why not license an existing one, such as C-Kermit (for embedding):

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ek.html

or C-Kermit (for Unix):

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html

or Kermit 95 (for Windows):

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95.html

By doing that, you help to support the nonprofit Kermit Project and you
get a better implementation than you would have coded from scratch, and one
that is proven in the field.

- Frank

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Desktop side: Kermit 95 version 2.1.3 on WinXP
Server side: C-Kermit 8.0.209 on Linux
Using SSH sessions

I type "bin" on both sides, but Kermit stubbornly transfers the PDF
file as text.

The transfer from Linux to Windows is fine, the uploads are the ones
getting messed up.

-Ramon


From fdc@panix.com Mon Mar  5 17:43:15 2007
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On 2007-03-05, Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> wrote:
: Desktop side: Kermit 95 version 2.1.3 on WinXP
: Server side: C-Kermit 8.0.209 on Linux
: Using SSH sessions
:
: I type "bin" on both sides, but Kermit stubbornly transfers the PDF
: file as text.
:
: The transfer from Linux to Windows is fine, the uploads are the ones
: getting messed up.
:
See:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x4

As you can see, by default Kermit scans each file to see whether it is text
or binary, and within this default, the default is to scan the first 48K.
Very infrequently -- but mainly with PDF or certain PostScript files -- it
can turn out that the first 48K are, indeed, text, and the "binary" part
happens later, and the default file scan comes up with a false positive
for text.

The cited material shows the many available workarounds.  The simplest one,
if you want to control the transfer mode yourself is, is:

  SET TRANSFER MODE MANUAL

and then use SEND /BINARY and SEND /TEXT.  Other options include using
filenamename associations instead of scanning the file's content, and
increasing the length of the scan.

- Frank

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Hello all,

I've been unable to find in the site how to write a INPUT or MINPUT
waiting for a given CASE SENSITVE pattern.

Thanks for help, Laurent


From slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com Sat Mar 31 14:27:55 2007
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From: "Mark Sapiro" <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: INPUT MINPUT case sensitive
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On Mar 25, 9:49 am, "mortier" <mort...@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> wrote:
>
> I've been unable to find in the site how to write a INPUT or MINPUT
> waiting for a given CASE SENSITVE pattern.

SET CASE ON

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value net      Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator


From gregg.drwho8@gmail.com Sat Mar 31 14:33:30 2007
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From: "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com" <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Kermit source code and Cygwin
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Hello!
I've decided to see if both the current version of C-Kermit, and the
one for G-Kermit can be built using the latest CYGWIN stuff.

So I was able to download the current version of C-Kermit via the
website. Next will be building it, more on that later.

However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
service I could see it but not download it.

Question! Why is that?
---
Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com


From slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com Sat Mar 31 14:34:40 2007
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From: "Mark Sapiro" <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit source code and Cygwin
Date: 31 Mar 2007 08:32:58 -0700
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On Mar 28, 9:44 am, "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com"
<gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
> which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
> service I could see it but not download it.


Which one is that? I just connected to ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives
(using a Kermit client of course) and listed the directory. There are
a few files that aren't world readable, but all the gku100.tar* files
are 664.

I see two gkermit.tar.gz* in the ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g
directory that are 660, but they aren't part of the 'individual source
files'. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/.readme .

In short, It looks to me that all the files linked from <http://
www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down> with the sole exception of
the gku100.ia64-hpux-11.23 binary are world readable.

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value net      Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator


From fdc@panix.com Sat Mar 31 14:37:18 2007
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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit source code and Cygwin
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:36:56 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2007-03-31, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: On Mar 28, 9:44 am, "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com"
:<gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote:
:>
:> However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
:> which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
:> service I could see it but not download it.
:
: Which one is that? I just connected to
: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives (using a Kermit client of course)
: and listed the directory. There are a few files that aren't world readable,
: but all the gku100.tar* files are 664.
:
: I see two gkermit.tar.gz* in the ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g
: directory that are 660, but they aren't part of the 'individual source
: files'. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/.readme .
:
: In short, It looks to me that all the files linked from <http://
: www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down> with the sole exception of
: the gku100.ia64-hpux-11.23 binary are world readable.
:
I fixed these just now.

- Frank

From mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr Sat Mar 31 14:27:15 2007
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From: "mortier" <mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: INPUT MINPUT case sensitive
Date: 25 Mar 2007 09:49:23 -0700
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Hello all,

I've been unable to find in the site how to write a INPUT or MINPUT
waiting for a given CASE SENSITVE pattern.

Thanks for help, Laurent


From slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com Sat Mar 31 14:27:55 2007
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From: "Mark Sapiro" <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: INPUT MINPUT case sensitive
Date: 31 Mar 2007 07:53:51 -0700
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On Mar 25, 9:49 am, "mortier" <mort...@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> wrote:
>
> I've been unable to find in the site how to write a INPUT or MINPUT
> waiting for a given CASE SENSITVE pattern.

SET CASE ON

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value net      Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator


From gregg.drwho8@gmail.com Sat Mar 31 14:33:30 2007
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From: "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com" <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Kermit source code and Cygwin
Date: 28 Mar 2007 09:44:52 -0700
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Hello!
I've decided to see if both the current version of C-Kermit, and the
one for G-Kermit can be built using the latest CYGWIN stuff.

So I was able to download the current version of C-Kermit via the
website. Next will be building it, more on that later.

However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
service I could see it but not download it.

Question! Why is that?
---
Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com


From slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com Sat Mar 31 14:34:40 2007
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From: "Mark Sapiro" <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit source code and Cygwin
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On Mar 28, 9:44 am, "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com"
<gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
> which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
> service I could see it but not download it.


Which one is that? I just connected to ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives
(using a Kermit client of course) and listed the directory. There are
a few files that aren't world readable, but all the gku100.tar* files
are 664.

I see two gkermit.tar.gz* in the ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g
directory that are 660, but they aren't part of the 'individual source
files'. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/.readme .

In short, It looks to me that all the files linked from <http://
www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down> with the sole exception of
the gku100.ia64-hpux-11.23 binary are world readable.

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value net      Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator


From fdc@panix.com Sat Mar 31 14:37:18 2007
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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit source code and Cygwin
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:36:56 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2007-03-31, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: On Mar 28, 9:44 am, "gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com"
:<gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote:
:>
:> However the one for G-Kermit appears to be wearing the 660 attribute
:> which normally means its not world readable. And indeed on the ftp
:> service I could see it but not download it.
:
: Which one is that? I just connected to
: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives (using a Kermit client of course)
: and listed the directory. There are a few files that aren't world readable,
: but all the gku100.tar* files are 664.
:
: I see two gkermit.tar.gz* in the ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g
: directory that are 660, but they aren't part of the 'individual source
: files'. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/.readme .
:
: In short, It looks to me that all the files linked from <http://
: www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html#down> with the sole exception of
: the gku100.ia64-hpux-11.23 binary are world readable.
:
I fixed these just now.

- Frank

From contracer11@gmail.com Fri Jun 29 13:08:49 2007
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From:  contracer11@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Sudo with Kermit
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Hi:

Is there any way to use Kermit like sudo program ?
(to execute Unix commands like root user)

solaris>cat /etc/hosts
no privilege....

solaris> sudo cat /etc/hosts
localhost 192.168.1.1
.
.
.
solaris>

Thanks.


From stephen.bozarth@gmail.com Fri Jun 29 13:09:11 2007
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Subject: Re: Sudo with Kermit
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On Jun 25, 11:36 pm, contrace...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is there any way to use Kermit like sudo program ?
> (to execute Unix commands like root user)
>
> solaris>cat /etc/hosts
> no privilege....
>
> solaris> sudo cat /etc/hosts
> localhost 192.168.1.1
> .
> .
> .
> solaris>
>
> Thanks.

Did you try?

sudo kermit will fire up kermit, given appropriate sudo permissions
for the invoking user....
sudo kermit <scriptname> will execute a kermit script.


From mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr Mon Jul 23 14:42:16 2007
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From:  mortier <mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: kermit script and unix arguments
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:42:02 -0700
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Hello,

I want to use a kermit script starting with #!/usr/bin/kermit +
with a line of argument (which can be empty). How the check if there
are actually arguments ? In the case where there are arguement, how to
put then in local kermit variables? In fact, how to mimic with kermit
the linux
while getops "options here" option ; do ... ?

Thanks a lot for help, Laurent


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From: Matthew Clarke <clamat@telus.net>
Subject: Re: kermit script and unix arguments
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mortier <mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> writes:

>Hello,
>
>I want to use a kermit script starting with #!/usr/bin/kermit +
>with a line of argument (which can be empty). How the check if there
>are actually arguments ? In the case where there are arguement, how to
>put then in local kermit variables? In fact, how to mimic with kermit
>the linux
>while getops "options here" option ; do ... ?
>
>Thanks a lot for help, Laurent

According to "Using C-Kermit" (2nd edition), \v(args) holds the number of
arguments and the array \&@[] holds the arguments themselves.

See http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/scriptlib.html for example scripts,
many of which have code to parse command-line arguments.
-- 
Snappy Quote:  "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"*
						*some assembly required

From fdc@panix.com Mon Jul 23 14:56:29 2007
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: kermit script and unix arguments
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On 2007-07-09, Matthew Clarke <clamat@telus.net> wrote:
: mortier <mortier@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> writes:
:
:>Hello,
:>
:>I want to use a kermit script starting with #!/usr/bin/kermit +
:>with a line of argument (which can be empty). How the check if there
:>are actually arguments ? In the case where there are arguement, how to
:>put then in local kermit variables? In fact, how to mimic with kermit
:>the linux
:>while getops "options here" option ; do ... ?
:>
:>Thanks a lot for help, Laurent
:
: According to "Using C-Kermit" (2nd edition), \v(args) holds the number of
: arguments and the array \&@[] holds the arguments themselves.
:
: See http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/scriptlib.html for example scripts,
: many of which have code to parse command-line arguments.
:
Actually the appropriate array is \&_[] and the appropriate count is \v(argc).
The \&@[] array contains *all* the command-line arguments -- command-line
options for Kermit as well as arguments for the script.  When you write a
kerbang script, normally you would only want the script to process the
arguments that are for the script itself.  And as expected the \&_[0] element
contains the name of the script, rather than the name of Kermit.  For details
see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x7.19 (kerbang scripts)

and:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x7.19 (passing arguments)

and:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x7.5 (using > 10 arguments)

Note that \&_[1] through \&_[9] are the same as \%1 through \%9 -- i.e. the
regular macro / command-file arguments.  The array is useful for accessing
the arguments programmatically by number, and also allows for more than 9
arguments.

- Frank

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Subject: Kermit ftp blocked
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I'm running on AIX 5 and if I use unix ftp commands I can connect to
my ftp site and download files. But if I use kermit ftp commands it
hangs trying to download the file (or even doing a dir command).
Eventually it says the connection timed out and goes back to the
kermit prompt.

I think the problem is their firewall is blocking it since I don't
have the same problem at other client sites. Does anyone know what
port (besides 21) needs to be allowed?

TIA
Shawn


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FYI - The client figured out the problem - apparently it was in active
ftp mode so they had to enable IP masquerading and then I could
download files.

On Jul 31, 1:21 pm, homey...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running on AIX 5 and if I use unix ftp commands I can connect to
> my ftp site and download files. But if I use kermit ftp commands it
> hangs trying to download the file (or even doing a dir command).
> Eventually it says the connection timed out and goes back to the
> kermit prompt.
>
> I think the problem is their firewall is blocking it since I don't
> have the same problem at other client sites. Does anyone know what
> port (besides 21) needs to be allowed?
>
> TIA
> Shawn



From gregg.drwho8@gmail.com Tue Aug  7 13:03:46 2007
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Building C-Kermit-8.211
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Hello!
While building the lastest release of C-Kermit from source retrieved
several days ago from the site, my laptop who's running Slackware-7.1,
old but works well on older gear, the process decided to crash
complaining about a typo. It was regarding the definition of a term,
regarding the crypt libraries.

However trying it again, this time extracting into a fresh directory
it didn't happen. Instead I get a normal build.  I can present a
script file of the process for those that are interested.

And here's something strange. In the interim I grabbed a binary,
thinking I would use that if I couldn't get a good build made. Instead
it complains about missing symbols in the libraries. That message I
don't have, because I discarded the binary after building the working
one. What is interesting to note is that the laptop is wearing the
latest series of patches that were available at the time the
distribution was released, and the issues were of course identified.

These were complaints about the Glibc signatures found in the runtime
libraries. Can one of you at the Kermit place check the dates of your
installed Glibc kits and advise me accordingly? Again this concerns
Slackware-7.1.
--
Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com
--
"This signature does not exist!"


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Hello,

I'm trying to ftp into an i/5 to retrieve a file.  I'm getting an
error however.  These are the commands:

# kermit
C-Kermit>ftp 10.5.0.13
Connected to 10.5.0.13.
 Name (10.5.0.13:root): cmc
 Password:
C-Kermit>cd /qsys.lib/eom063007.lib
C-Kermit>bin
C-Kermit>get DATAAZ.file
Subcommand SIZE not valid.
C-Kermit>quit

However, if I use the shell's (bash, suse linux 10.0) built-in ftp
client I'm able to retrieve the file just fine.  If anyone could shed
some light on this problem I'd appreciate it greatly.

Matt


From fdc@panix.com Tue Aug  7 13:34:22 2007
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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Building C-Kermit-8.211
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:09:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2007-08-02, <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
: While building the lastest release of C-Kermit from source retrieved
: several days ago from the site, my laptop who's running Slackware-7.1,
: old but works well on older gear, the process decided to crash
: complaining about a typo. It was regarding the definition of a term,
: regarding the crypt libraries.
:
: However trying it again, this time extracting into a fresh directory
: it didn't happen. Instead I get a normal build.  I can present a
: script file of the process for those that are interested.
:
As far as I know, the "make linux" target should be fine everywhere.
It is perhaps the most "advanced" target in the makefile, as it includes
a number of tests to allow for different Linux variations.  I can't explain
why trying to build it once would crash (what crashed exactly?) and doing
it again worked ok, but if you wish, please go ahead send the script to
kermit-support@columbia.edu.

: And here's something strange. In the interim I grabbed a binary,
: thinking I would use that if I couldn't get a good build made. Instead
: it complains about missing symbols in the libraries. That message I
: don't have, because I discarded the binary after building the working
: one. What is interesting to note is that the laptop is wearing the
: latest series of patches that were available at the time the
: distribution was released, and the issues were of course identified.
:
: These were complaints about the Glibc signatures found in the runtime
: libraries. Can one of you at the Kermit place check the dates of your
: installed Glibc kits and advise me accordingly? Again this concerns
: Slackware-7.1.
:
Kermit binaries -- and this is probably true of most other applications as
well -- are vulnerable to this kind of thing, in Linux especially.  It is
always better to build it on the computer where it is to be run, to allow
for library differences and so on.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Tue Aug  7 13:34:25 2007
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: SIZE error when getting file.
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On 2007-08-03, mtice <mjtice@gmail.com> wrote:
: I'm trying to ftp into an i/5 to retrieve a file.  I'm getting an
: error however.  These are the commands:
:
: # kermit
: C-Kermit>ftp 10.5.0.13
: Connected to 10.5.0.13.
:  Name (10.5.0.13:root): cmc
:  Password:
: C-Kermit>cd /qsys.lib/eom063007.lib
: C-Kermit>bin
: C-Kermit>get DATAAZ.file
: Subcommand SIZE not valid.
: C-Kermit>quit
:
: However, if I use the shell's (bash, suse linux 10.0) built-in ftp
: client I'm able to retrieve the file just fine.  If anyone could shed
: some light on this problem I'd appreciate it greatly.
:
When you give a GET command, Kermit sends a SIZE command to get the file's
size so (for example) it can give a progress indication during the transfer.

  C-Kermit>set ftp debug on
  C-Kermit>get msk315.txt
  ---> SIZE msk315.txt
  213 16220
   GET msk315.txt (text) (16220 bytes)---> PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (128,59,29,214,130,34)
  ---> RETR msk315.txt
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for msk315.txt (15814 bytes).
  226 Transfer complete.
  C-Kermit>

If the server does not understand the SIZE command, Kermit is supposed to say
(to itself), "OK, fine, I don't know the size but I will still ask for the
file", and then it sends a RETR command.  I don't see anyplace in the code
where Kermit would fail to send the RETR command upon getting an error in
response to the SIZE command.  I would be interested to find out how this
happened.  In the meantime, however, you can always work around the 
problem by giving the following command before you do a GET or MGET:

  ftp disable size

- Frank

From gregg.drwho8@gmail.com Fri Aug 10 14:37:39 2007
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Frank Da Cruz wrote:
> On 2007-08-02, <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
> : While building the lastest release of C-Kermit from source retrieved
> : several days ago from the site, my laptop who's running Slackware-7.1,
> : old but works well on older gear, the process decided to crash
> : complaining about a typo. It was regarding the definition of a term,
> : regarding the crypt libraries.
> :
> : However trying it again, this time extracting into a fresh directory
> : it didn't happen. Instead I get a normal build.  I can present a
> : script file of the process for those that are interested.
> :
> As far as I know, the "make linux" target should be fine everywhere.
> It is perhaps the most "advanced" target in the makefile, as it includes
> a number of tests to allow for different Linux variations.  I can't explain
> why trying to build it once would crash (what crashed exactly?) and doing
> it again worked ok, but if you wish, please go ahead send the script to
> kermit-support@columbia.edu.
>
> : And here's something strange. In the interim I grabbed a binary,
> : thinking I would use that if I couldn't get a good build made. Instead
> : it complains about missing symbols in the libraries. That message I
> : don't have, because I discarded the binary after building the working
> : one. What is interesting to note is that the laptop is wearing the
> : latest series of patches that were available at the time the
> : distribution was released, and the issues were of course identified.
> :
> : These were complaints about the Glibc signatures found in the runtime
> : libraries. Can one of you at the Kermit place check the dates of your
> : installed Glibc kits and advise me accordingly? Again this concerns
> : Slackware-7.1.
> :
> Kermit binaries -- and this is probably true of most other applications as
> well -- are vulnerable to this kind of thing, in Linux especially.  It is
> always better to build it on the computer where it is to be run, to allow
> for library differences and so on.
>
> - Frank

Hello!
>From what I recall the build process exploded on the subject of the
Ncurses library. And yes I find it interesting, and even ironic that
it would work the second time around, as opposed to the first.

Oh and I am preparing to send the script output of the second go-round
to your selected address this right minute.
----
Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com


From gregg.drwho8@gmail.com Fri Aug 10 14:38:22 2007
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From:  gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Building C-Kermit-8.211
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gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com wrote:
> Frank Da Cruz wrote:
> > On 2007-08-02, <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
> > : While building the lastest release of C-Kermit from source retrieved
> > : several days ago from the site, my laptop who's running Slackware-7.1,
> > : old but works well on older gear, the process decided to crash
> > : complaining about a typo. It was regarding the definition of a term,
> > : regarding the crypt libraries.
> > :
> > : However trying it again, this time extracting into a fresh directory
> > : it didn't happen. Instead I get a normal build.  I can present a
> > : script file of the process for those that are interested.
> > :
> > As far as I know, the "make linux" target should be fine everywhere.
> > It is perhaps the most "advanced" target in the makefile, as it includes
> > a number of tests to allow for different Linux variations.  I can't explain
> > why trying to build it once would crash (what crashed exactly?) and doing
> > it again worked ok, but if you wish, please go ahead send the script to
> > kermit-support@columbia.edu.
> >
> > : And here's something strange. In the interim I grabbed a binary,
> > : thinking I would use that if I couldn't get a good build made. Instead
> > : it complains about missing symbols in the libraries. That message I
> > : don't have, because I discarded the binary after building the working
> > : one. What is interesting to note is that the laptop is wearing the
> > : latest series of patches that were available at the time the
> > : distribution was released, and the issues were of course identified.
> > :
> > : These were complaints about the Glibc signatures found in the runtime
> > : libraries. Can one of you at the Kermit place check the dates of your
> > : installed Glibc kits and advise me accordingly? Again this concerns
> > : Slackware-7.1.
> > :
> > Kermit binaries -- and this is probably true of most other applications as
> > well -- are vulnerable to this kind of thing, in Linux especially.  It is
> > always better to build it on the computer where it is to be run, to allow
> > for library differences and so on.
> >
> > - Frank
>
> Hello!
> >From what I recall the build process exploded on the subject of the
> Ncurses library. And yes I find it interesting, and even ironic that
> it would work the second time around, as opposed to the first.
>
> Oh and I am preparing to send the script output of the second go-round
> to your selected address this right minute.
> ----
> Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com

Hello!
Pardon me, minor brain engineering casualty, it was indeed the crypt
library issue not ncurses that caused the first event during building
of C-Kermit-8.0 211
--
 Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com


From leen.smit@gmail.com Sun Sep  2 14:59:47 2007
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Subject: ITX / WP - not sending shift F7 (and driving me N*TS)
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Hello,

I have the following weird problem, and im hoping that you can help
me.

Im working on a Linux machine (fedora core 7) and connect trough ssh
or telnet to a server, on which ITX (=Wordperfect for Unix) runs. For
some reason, i cannot use any of the WP shortcuts. I need shift-f7 -
The printer menu - to test printers for users.. Now, the normal F1
through F12 work fine, but not SHIFT / CTRL / ALT combos.

My collegues, on windows, use K95. this is preconfigured a long time
ago (the mappings etc).i dived into the conf files and see wether any
special parameters where set. i coulndt find any, except termninal
protocol is vt220 or kermit. on linux this should not be neccesary,
since xterm already has the vt220 terminal "embedded".
I've already tried installing Ckermit, and copy the windows .INI files
(with the key mappings for Kermit) onto my machine(and edit them
slighty), to no avail..I tried downloading premade mappings from
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp and place those in  my .kermrc
file.
To no avail...

Searching the newsgroups i found commands like " set terminal keyboard-
mode wp" to set kermit in WP mode.. But Ckermit is not excepting
this..
That is to say, in those post people reffer to "pressing ctrl-x" to
get in command mode, but that doenst do anything .
I simply start kermit by typing kermit at the prompt, and then telnet
or ssh <servername> at the C-Kermit prompt.. once logged on there, i
start ITX.

Somehow i have a strange feeling my xterm or (Gnome-term for that
matter) simply does not send the shift-F7 keystroke to the remote
machine...
I've tried export TERM=vt220, in the idle hope that that might change
anything, to no avail...
I tried from a normal terminal (no x), with the same results..

Since kermit is so well documented im starting to feel rather stupid
at this stage.. Im no expert, but most of this is not new to me, so
what im a doing wrong here?
I just need this silly SHIFT-F7!


Does anyone here by any chance know how to fix this???
Any help would be greatly apprecited. If i need to suplly any info,
please dont hesitate to contact me.

With kind regards,

Leen Smit


From fdc@panix.com Sun Sep  2 15:04:30 2007
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ITX / WP - not sending shift F7 (and driving me N*TS)
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On 2007-08-30, leen.smit@gmail.com <leen.smit@gmail.com> wrote:
: Im working on a Linux machine (fedora core 7) and connect trough ssh
: or telnet to a server, on which ITX (=Wordperfect for Unix) runs. For
: some reason, i cannot use any of the WP shortcuts. I need shift-f7 -
: The printer menu - to test printers for users.. Now, the normal F1
: through F12 work fine, but not SHIFT / CTRL / ALT combos.
:
: My collegues, on windows, use K95. this is preconfigured a long time
: ago (the mappings etc).i dived into the conf files and see wether any
: special parameters where set. i coulndt find any, except termninal
: protocol is vt220 or kermit. on linux this should not be neccesary,
: since xterm already has the vt220 terminal "embedded".
:
The problem is that Linux is not Windows.  In Windows, an application
(such as K95) can "see" the keyboard.  In Linux it can only read
characters from stdin.  C-Kermit has no idea if you press F7 or Alt-F7
or Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F7 -- it only gets the bytes that the console driver
gives to it and passes them along to the host you are connected to.
This is discussed here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckfaq.html#term

Sorry!

- Frank

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Subject: Re: Best speed for file transfers?
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:08:15 +0000, ***** charles wrote:

> I need to transfer lots of large (4-5G)files from several computers to
> one over a network.  I have access to 1G switches and such so what
> would be the best way to accomplish this, ftp, cp, samba, nfs, zfs
> etc....? [...]

Any of the above will work as long as the receiving filesystem can handle 
files larger than 2GB. You will be limited by the slowest link in the 
network between your new host and each system. I usually use c-kermit on 
both ends of Unix connections to transfer lots of files. It can be used 
over telnet or ssh to do this. If it matters to you c-kermit is not OSS. 
The version for Micro$oft systems is not "free".

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

If you use it and like it you might want to purchase the manual:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/manuals.html

Use this URL to read the C-Kermit 7.0/8.0 license:

ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/f/COPYING.TXT

Cross-post to: comp.protocols.kermit.misc

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Determining State of "set case"
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:34:15 -0000
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In article <13f05dg3q021hc9@corp.supernews.com>,
NoSpam <nospam@killspam.org> wrote:
>Is there a way to determine the state of "set case" ?
>
>I want to be able to store and reset this value after calling functions that 
>may change it for
>the purpose of their string matching.

you dont _need_ to.

"Set case" is automatially restored to  its "old" value -- whatever that 
was -- when a macro or command file is  _exited_.

Change it within a macro, and -- at maro exit -- it reverts to  what it was
when that macro was entered.

Change it within a command  file, and at file exit,it reverts to what itwas
when  the file  was entered.


>If this is not possible, I guess a workaround would be to compare \fupper() 
>or \flower() for case insensitive searches.








From fdc@panix.com Thu Sep 20 14:59:29 2007
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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On 2007-09-13, ERACC <junkmail@eracc.com> wrote:
: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:08:15 +0000, ***** charles wrote:
:
:> I need to transfer lots of large (4-5G)files from several computers to
:> one over a network.  I have access to 1G switches and such so what
:> would be the best way to accomplish this, ftp, cp, samba, nfs, zfs
:> etc....? [...]
:
: Any of the above will work as long as the receiving filesystem can handle 
: files larger than 2GB. You will be limited by the slowest link in the 
: network between your new host and each system. I usually use c-kermit on 
: both ends of Unix connections to transfer lots of files. It can be used 
: over telnet or ssh to do this. If it matters to you c-kermit is not OSS. 
: The version for Micro$oft systems is not "free".
:
: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
:
: If you use it and like it you might want to purchase the manual:
:
: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/manuals.html
:
: Use this URL to read the C-Kermit 7.0/8.0 license:
:
: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/f/COPYING.TXT
:
: Cross-post to: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
:
Note that support for large files (> 2GB) in the current Kermit
releases is limited to pure 64-bit platforms like Tru64 Unix.

Preview versions of the next C-Kermit release are available here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckdaily.html

This version supports transfer of large files, both with Kermit 
protocol and FTP, on many platforms, listed here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckc212.html

As to speed, you can measure it yourself but modern Kermit is
a lot faster than many people imagine.  It has been adapted to
today's relatively transparent and error-free transports (TCP/IP,
error-correcting modems, big buffers, etc) to go at speeds close
to the connection speed itself; sometimes a bit faster due to
a simple built-in compression method.

- Frank

From rolftrainor@gmail.com Thu Sep 27 18:49:27 2007
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I am in a situation where i need to have an FTP server, on Windows,
that accepts Stanford's SRP requests.  Kermit appears to be the only
software that will do this.    I am trying to install the free demo
K95 2.1.3 for Windows.

As i configure Kermit, the documentation states that i need to copy a
srpfilter.dll file to the c:\Windows directory.  I cannot find that
file anywhere.  Am i missing something in this, or can someone tell me
where that file is.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
Rolf Trainor


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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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On 2007-09-26, RolfTrainor <rolftrainor@gmail.com> wrote:
: I am in a situation where i need to have an FTP server, on Windows,
: that accepts Stanford's SRP requests.  Kermit appears to be the only
: software that will do this.    I am trying to install the free demo
: K95 2.1.3 for Windows.
:
Kermit 95 is not an FTP server.  It does, however, include an FTP client
that supports various security including SRP.

: As i configure Kermit, the documentation states that i need to copy a
: srpfilter.dll file to the c:\Windows directory.  I cannot find that
: file anywhere.  Am i missing something in this, or can someone tell me
: where that file is.
:
Which documentation?  I don't find the string "srpfilter" anywhere in the
Kermit 95 manual or on the website.  If DLLs need to be installed,
the Installer would do it automatically, according to the options you
elected.  In any case, on my own Windows XP system, which has a fully
configured version of Kermit 95 installed, there is no srpfilter.dll
anywhere on the hard disk.

- Frank

From jaltman@gmail.com Sat Oct 20 09:32:55 2007
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On Sep 26, 1:53 pm, RolfTrainor <rolftrai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am in a situation where i need to have an FTP server, on Windows,
> that accepts Stanford's SRP requests.  Kermit appears to be the only
> software that will do this.    I am trying to install the free demo
> K95 2.1.3 for Windows.
>
> As i configure Kermit, the documentation states that i need to copy a
> srpfilter.dll file to the c:\Windows directory.  I cannot find that
> file anywhere.  Am i missing something in this, or can someone tell me
> where that file is.

The wiksdadm.htm file states the file name is SRPFILTR.DLL.  I don't
remember where it would be installed but you would have to select the
optional SRP modules during the installation process.

SRPFILTR.DLL is a Windows Password Change hook that would permit
automatic synchronization of the local Windows account password and
the SRP Password Hash file.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.




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I have a process/job that uses the C-Kermit protocol to dial into and
get data from a modem site.  I have never worked with C-Kermit before,
so please bear with me.  The process runs normally, but then
terminates with the error:

?Session log wasn't open

I am thinking that some environment/configuration variable for C-
Kermit has not been setup properly.  Either that, or nothing is being
written to this log.  What do I need to check and do to try to resolve
this problem?

Thanks,

Ken


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"texasreddog" <texasreddog@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> ?Session log wasn't open

type help log to view / changes your session log settings.

could be a permission / rights issue preventing the logfile from being 
created / written. 



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In article <1193173803.461402.65000@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
texasreddog  <texasreddog@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have a process/job that uses the C-Kermit protocol to dial into and
>get data from a modem site.  I have never worked with C-Kermit before,
>so please bear with me.  The process runs normally, but then
>terminates with the error:
>
>?Session log wasn't open
>
>I am thinking that some environment/configuration variable for C-
>Kermit has not been setup properly.  Either that, or nothing is being
>written to this log.  What do I need to check and do to try to resolve
>this problem?

Apparently, the sript driving the session has a 'close session-log' command
that is preeeded by a 'log session' command.



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From: Maalobs <Maalobs_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Uploading files with FTP to MVS data sets
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Hello there,

I'm trying to upload a file to an IBM MVS mainframe using K-95 V2.1.2, where the
file is stored as a "data set".
The full name of the data set (and hence, the file), is something like this:
D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1

The little I understand of these data sets, is that the '.' characters denote
the equivalent of directory levels.

I log in with FTP, nothing special is reported:
---8<---
[C:\] K-95> ftp ftp.mvsserver.com
Connected to ftp.mvsserver.com.
D610TES is logged on.  Working directory is "D123.".
Switching Locus to REMOTE for file management commands
such as CD, DIRECTORY, DELETE, RENAME.  Type HELP SET
LOCUS at the K-95> prompt for further info.  Use the
SET LOCUS command to disable automatic locus switching
or to disable these queries.
OK to switch Locus?y
Restart requires Block or Compressed transfer mode.
Remote system type is MVS.
Default transfer mode is TEXT ("ASCII")
[C:\] K-95>
---8<---

After that, I just run the put command to upload the file:
---8<---
[C:\] K-95> put D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1
Kermit 95 2.1.2, 25 Nov 2002, pc [192.168.1.10]

   Current Directory: C:/
        Network Host: ftp.mvsserver.com
        Network Type: TCP/IP
              Parity: none
         RTT/Timeout: 00 / 00
             FTP PUT:  => D123_XXXXXX_YYYYYY_20071029.1
           File Type: TEXT (no translation)
           File Size: 4425
        Percent Done:
        FTP Protocol:     ...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
        Elapsed Time: 00:00:00
  Transfer Rate, CPS: 0
        Window Slots: N/A
         Packet Type: N/A
           I/O Count: 0
          I/O Length: 0
         Error Count: 0
          Last Error:
        Last Message: Invalid data set name "D123_XXXXXX_YYYYYY_20071029.1".
Use MVS Dsname conventions.
[C:\] K-95>
---8<---

Why are the first '.' characters in the filename converted to '_'?
If that is the root problem here, then how do I tell Kermit not to change the
filename?

If anyone has an idea how to solve this, I would gladly hear your suggestions.
:)


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From: Maalobs <Maalobs_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Uploading files with FTP to MVS data sets
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In article <fg4e7i019rd@drn.newsguy.com>, Maalobs says...

> I'm trying to upload a file to an IBM MVS mainframe using
> K-95 V2.1.2, where the file is stored as a "data set".
> The full name of the data set (and hence, the file), is
> something like this:
> D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1

> The little I understand of these data sets, is that the '.'
> characters denote the equivalent of directory levels.

I think I figured out a part of the problem myself.
I learned that the filename is illegal if a digit appears directly after a '.'.
So I changed the filename to this:
D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1

And in fact, the home directory I arrive at when I login, is 'D123.', so the
name I must use is:
XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1

With that knowledge I run 'put XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1' in K95, but I still get
this error:
Invalid data set name "XXXXXX_YYYYYY_D071029.A1".  Use MVS Dsname conventions.

Using this last method works with MS ftp.exe in Windows, but not with K95.

Why does K95 insist on changing the filename?


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trying to connect to a CE Enterprise server, successfully authenticate, but 
can't get the data channel built properly.

I believe the issue may be related to 'cccpolicy', but have been unable to 
figure out how to tell ckermit or k95 how to set this param.

TIA.



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On 2007-10-29, Maalobs <Maalobs_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
: In article <fg4e7i019rd@drn.newsguy.com>, Maalobs says...
:
:> I'm trying to upload a file to an IBM MVS mainframe using
:> K-95 V2.1.2, where the file is stored as a "data set".
:> The full name of the data set (and hence, the file), is
:> something like this:
:> D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1
:
:> The little I understand of these data sets, is that the '.'
:> characters denote the equivalent of directory levels.
: 
: I think I figured out a part of the problem myself.  I learned that the
: filename is illegal if a digit appears directly after a '.'.
:
: So I changed the filename to this:
: D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1
:
: And in fact, the home directory I arrive at when I login, is 'D123.', so the
: name I must use is:
: XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1
:
: With that knowledge I run 'put XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1' in K95, but I still
: get this error: Invalid data set name "XXXXXX_YYYYYY_D071029.A1".  Use MVS
: Dsname conventions.
:
: Using this last method works with MS ftp.exe in Windows, but not with K95.
:
: Why does K95 insist on changing the filename?
:
Because on many operating systems, filenames containing multiple dots
(periods) are illegal.

To get around this use:

  ftp put /filenames:literal D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1

or:

  ftp mput /filenames:literal <wildcard>

- Frank

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On 2007-10-31, NoSpam <nospam@killspam.org> wrote:
: trying to connect to a CE Enterprise server, successfully authenticate, but 
: can't get the data channel built properly.
:
: I believe the issue may be related to 'cccpolicy', but have been unable to 
: figure out how to tell ckermit or k95 how to set this param.
:
Are we talking about Kerberized FTP?  See:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/security70.html

Search for "ccc".  If you're asking about something else, probably the
answer is in here somewhere:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/security.html

If not, please be more specific about the type of connection and protocol
involved.

- Frank



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In article <slrnfihor6.5v2.fdc@panix2.panix.com>, Frank Da Cruz says...
>: With that knowledge I run 'put XXXXXX.YYYYYY.D071029.A1' in K95,
>: but I still get this error:
>: Invalid data set name "XXXXXX_YYYYYY_D071029.A1". Use MVS Dsname
>: conventions.

>: Using this last method works with MS ftp.exe in Windows, but not with K95.

>: Why does K95 insist on changing the filename?

> Because on many operating systems, filenames containing multiple
> dots (periods) are illegal.

> To get around this use:

> ftp put /filenames:literal D123.XXXXXX.YYYYYY.20071029.1

> or:

> ftp mput /filenames:literal <wildcard>

Yes, that worked like a charm. :)

Thanks for your help!


With kind regards,

Maalobs


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On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:50:19 +0000, John Santos wrote:

> I take it you want to "screen scrape" the VT520?

If I am using the correct terms, yes.

> Does the 520 have a "print screen" feature?  (Most/all of the earlier VT
> series terminals did.)  If so, you could direct the "print screen" to
> the terminal's printer port, and connect the printer port via a null
> modem cable to a computer, for example to a spare serial port on your
> Debian Unix system.  Run a suitable serial-port application that is
> capturing input on the 2nd serial port (say, for example, C-Kermit), and
> press the "print" key (probably F2) on the VT520 keyboard, or send the
> VT520 the escape sequence to invoke the "print screen" function.  The
> screen contents should show up in the 2nd instance of Kermit's log file
> as 24 lines of 80 characters (or whatever size you've got the VT520 set
> to), just as if it was sent to a real serial printer.

I hope to capture screen data from a kermit script without manually 
pressing a key. Thank you for your response. I am still trying to find 
something that works. See my reply above for my current attempts.


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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:47:21 +0000, Robert Bonomi wrote:

> In article <h654j.66697$RX.26340@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>, 2damn 
> <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
> Kermit has the 'log' command that will provide various kinds of gory
> detail to a file.  'log session' before a 'connect' command, and you wil
>  capture all the interactive stuff you do, and which you can use to
> built a script from.
> 
> 
> This approach fails if the remote system thinks its talking to something
> where it can play cursor-positioning and selective over-write games.
> 
> If you can tell the remote computer that you're using some kind of a
> 'dumb' hard-copy terminal this issue is moot.
> 
> Else, screen-scraping gets *VERY* complex.

I tried "log" and it does contain communication data that is not useful 
for me. And some bits are total garbage so there may be some of what you 
mention in your second paragraph going on. 

I have found that "cat /dev/vcsX" can copy ttyX, but of course not my 
ttySX. I can format the capture with newlines (dd) and trim what I want 
(sed). Attempting to get it to work on the serial lines. 

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On 2007-12-12, 2damn <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
: On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:47:21 +0000, Robert Bonomi wrote:
:> In article <h654j.66697$RX.26340@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>, 2damn 
:> <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
:> Kermit has the 'log' command that will provide various kinds of gory
:> detail to a file.  'log session' before a 'connect' command, and you wil
:>  capture all the interactive stuff you do, and which you can use to
:> built a script from.
:> 
:> This approach fails if the remote system thinks its talking to something
:> where it can play cursor-positioning and selective over-write games.
:> 
:> If you can tell the remote computer that you're using some kind of a
:> 'dumb' hard-copy terminal this issue is moot.
:> 
:> Else, screen-scraping gets *VERY* complex.
:
: I tried "log" and it does contain communication data that is not useful 
: for me. And some bits are total garbage so there may be some of what you 
: mention in your second paragraph going on. 
:
The garbage is mostly likely escape sequences and control characters from the 
host application.

: I have found that "cat /dev/vcsX" can copy ttyX, but of course not my 
: ttySX.
:
That would be the same as Kermit's session log -- it's just a copy of the
incoming data stream.

: I can format the capture with newlines (dd) and trim what I want 
: (sed). Attempting to get it to work on the serial lines. 
:
As explained here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckfaq.html#term

C-Kermit (unlike Kermit 95 on Windows) is not a terminal emulator; it's a
communications pipe between the remote system and your terminal window or
console driver, the latter being the component that handles the terminal
emulation.

If your terminal emulation is ANSI-compliant (such as VT100, VT220, etc),
we have a utility for stripping escape sequences from session logs:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/utils/rmescseq.c

It doesn't interpret the escape sequences, it just removes them.

- Frank

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Subject: Re: Screen Capture
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In article <g3J7j.77732$YL5.57974@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
2damn  <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:47:21 +0000, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
>> In article <h654j.66697$RX.26340@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>, 2damn 
>> <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
>> Kermit has the 'log' command that will provide various kinds of gory
>> detail to a file.  'log session' before a 'connect' command, and you wil
>>  capture all the interactive stuff you do, and which you can use to
>> built a script from.
>> 
>> 
>> This approach fails if the remote system thinks its talking to something
>> where it can play cursor-positioning and selective over-write games.
>> 
>> If you can tell the remote computer that you're using some kind of a
>> 'dumb' hard-copy terminal this issue is moot.
>> 
>> Else, screen-scraping gets *VERY* complex.
>
>I tried "log" and it does contain communication data that is not useful 
>for me. And some bits are total garbage so there may be some of what you 
>mention in your second paragraph going on. 
>
>I have found that "cat /dev/vcsX" can copy ttyX, but of course not my 
>ttySX. I can format the capture with newlines (dd) and trim what I want 
>(sed). Attempting to get it to work on the serial lines. 


OK, bluntly, given your descriptions, _you_ cannot get C-Kermit to do that
which you want to happen.

Building application-specific 'screen-scraping' logic in Kermit macro-language
*is* possible, but *very* _painful_, and works only for the exact screen
form for which it was coded.  If _anything_ changes regarding how the remote
machine generates the screen, the  macro programming requires major reworking.

Developing such macros requires an *intimate*knowledge* of what the remote
machine is doing, and what kind of device it 'thinks' it is talking to, *AND*
the gory details of the formatting/addressing protocol(s) being used.  And if 
the remote machine's concept of the terminal device can be changed or not.  
Also, if it can be changed, what are _all_ the possible alternatives.

As you apparently lack this essential information about the environment you
are trying to work in, and don't have the experience to simply 'recognize on 
sight' the protocol data in what you have described as the 'total garbage',
you do not have the required skill-set to build the solution you need.
(This _is_ "specialist" knowledge/skills -- unless you routinely do work
involving 'faking a terminal', it's not surprising that you don't know these
things -- they're *not* part of the 'general skills'. )

Your best bet is to hire a knowledgeable professional -- one _with_ expertise
in 'serial port communications' -- for (A) a consultation on 'what is 
going on' in your specific situation, (B) 'what is practical' as regards
EXACTLY what you are trying to accomplish, and then, possibly (C) development 
of custom software -- probably not based on Kermit -- to solve your problem.


Feel free to e-mail me directly with further questions.  Please start the 
subject line with 'KERMIT', so I'll see it.



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I reply without quoting your whole response.

Your assessment is right on target.

My current self made project is to use kermit to automate some tasks on 
serial connections to a company system. Just to speed things up and save 
some carpal tunnel. I do not have and will not have any sort of 
administrator rights on the company system. I am just trying to have the 
kermit input and output commands run repetitive tasks. The problem is 
there are many exceptions to default scenarios and I think kermit can 
deal with them.

I am having success with some aspects so far. Screen capture would be 
great to add.

I am not a professional programmer or serial communications expert by any 
means.

I will kick the dead mule a while longer. :)



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On 2007-12-14, 2damn <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
: My current self made project is to use kermit to automate some tasks on 
: serial connections to a company system. Just to speed things up and save 
: some carpal tunnel. I do not have and will not have any sort of 
: administrator rights on the company system. I am just trying to have the 
: kermit input and output commands run repetitive tasks. The problem is 
: there are many exceptions to default scenarios and I think kermit can 
: deal with them.
:
C-Kermit can handle text-mode dialogs just fine, and for that matter also
menu-driven dialogs, if you can do this without specific reference to screen
positions and coordinates.  For example, the host application paints a
manu and at the bottom it prints "Choice?" and the user is supposed to enter
the number (or whatever) of the desired menu item.  Well, if "Choice?" is
the last thing that the host sends (which is something you can tell from
a session log), then:

  clear input
  input 10 Choice?
  if failure (do something)
  output 3\13

is all you need for waiting for the menu to paint itself (assuming it does
so within 10 seconds) and to choose menu item number 3.

On the other hand, if you really need to reference specific screen
coordinates or the contents of specifi screen fields
, you can do this with Kermit 95 on Windows because, unlike
C-Kermit, in incorporates its own terminal emulator and knows what is on the
screen and where.

Perhaps if you describe a typical session of the type you want to automate,
I can show you how to do it.  Meanwhile, take a look at the brief Kermit
scripting tutorial here:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckscripts.html

and the many sample scripts that are included in the script library, listed
on the same page.

- Frank

From john.santos@post.harvard.edu Mon Dec 17 11:41:20 2007
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In article <VTI7j.77731$YL5.64694@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>, 
2damn@nospam.com says...
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:50:19 +0000, John Santos wrote:
> 
> > I take it you want to "screen scrape" the VT520?
> 
> If I am using the correct terms, yes.
> 
> > Does the 520 have a "print screen" feature?  (Most/all of the earlier VT
> > series terminals did.)  If so, you could direct the "print screen" to
> > the terminal's printer port, and connect the printer port via a null
> > modem cable to a computer, for example to a spare serial port on your
> > Debian Unix system.  Run a suitable serial-port application that is
> > capturing input on the 2nd serial port (say, for example, C-Kermit), and
> > press the "print" key (probably F2) on the VT520 keyboard, or send the
> > VT520 the escape sequence to invoke the "print screen" function.  The
> > screen contents should show up in the 2nd instance of Kermit's log file
> > as 24 lines of 80 characters (or whatever size you've got the VT520 set
> > to), just as if it was sent to a real serial printer.
> 
> I hope to capture screen data from a kermit script without manually 
> pressing a key. Thank you for your response. I am still trying to find 
> something that works. See my reply above for my current attempts.

I believe there is an escape sequence that can be sent to the terminal
to do the same thing as pressing the "print screen" key.  I didn't
want to complicate the original post by going into that.  If your
program knows when to screen scrape, it can send the sequence at the
appropriate time.  If the program doesn't know when to do it, and the
user has to press a key.  Otherwise, how do you expect it to happen?

-- 
John

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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:48:12 +0000, John Santos wrote:
> I believe there is an escape sequence that can be sent to the terminal
> to do the same thing as pressing the "print screen" key.  I didn't want
> to complicate the original post by going into that.  If your program
> knows when to screen scrape, it can send the sequence at the appropriate
> time.  If the program doesn't know when to do it, and the user has to
> press a key.  Otherwise, how do you expect it to happen?

This is a great suggestion I had not really considered. I will try it out 
this week.



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On 2007-12-17, 2damn <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:48:12 +0000, John Santos wrote:
:> I believe there is an escape sequence that can be sent to the terminal
:> to do the same thing as pressing the "print screen" key.  I didn't want
:> to complicate the original post by going into that.  If your program
:> knows when to screen scrape, it can send the sequence at the appropriate
:> time.  If the program doesn't know when to do it, and the user has to
:> press a key.  Otherwise, how do you expect it to happen?
:
: This is a great suggestion I had not really considered. I will try it out 
: this week.
:
C-Kermit supports this; see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x3.3

- Frank

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:47 +0000, Frank da Cruz wrote:
> C-Kermit can handle text-mode dialogs just fine, and for that matter
> also menu-driven dialogs, if you can do this without specific reference
> to screen positions and coordinates.  For example, the host application
> paints a manu and at the bottom it prints "Choice?" and the user is
> supposed to enter the number (or whatever) of the desired menu item. 
> Well, if "Choice?" is the last thing that the host sends (which is
> something you can tell from a session log), then:
> 
>   clear input
>   input 10 Choice?
>   if failure (do something)
>   output 3\13

I have the input, if failure, output routine going okay. I am currently 
using a generic FAIL message and will add better notices where needed.

The trouble is that each feature is not exactally the same at all times. 
As I said I think kermit can deal with this. At the very least, well 
enough to send unsolvable items to an error report.

> On the other hand, if you really need to reference specific screen
> coordinates or the contents of specifi screen fields , you can do this
> with Kermit 95 on Windows because, unlike C-Kermit, in incorporates its
> own terminal emulator and knows what is on the screen and where.

The system accepts commands just fine so long as I can compensate for 
some differences. The issue with garbled feedback applies only to "screen 
grabs".  Using the kermit session record some "screens" just have 
"interuptions" with serial communication data and some seem completely 
broken and unrecognizable. I think the kermit session logging is not the 
way for me to correctly capture the feedback from the system.

The ability to "screen grab" is very secondary to kermit being useful for 
my project.

This week I have individual items running through 2 processes from a list 
thanks to the online kermit documentation. Adding an option for a third 
process and a useable kermit or bash menu will bring it up to snuff as a 
beta usable to others.

Thanks for all the info so far.



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On 2007-12-20, 2damn <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:47 +0000, Frank da Cruz wrote:
:> C-Kermit can handle text-mode dialogs just fine, and for that matter
:> also menu-driven dialogs, if you can do this without specific reference
:> to screen positions and coordinates.  For example, the host application
:> paints a manu and at the bottom it prints "Choice?" and the user is
:> supposed to enter the number (or whatever) of the desired menu item. 
:> Well, if "Choice?" is the last thing that the host sends (which is
:> something you can tell from a session log), then:
:> 
:>   clear input
:>   input 10 Choice?
:>   if failure (do something)
:>   output 3\13
:
: I have the input, if failure, output routine going okay. I am currently 
: using a generic FAIL message and will add better notices where needed.
:
: The trouble is that each feature is not exactally the same at all times. 
: As I said I think kermit can deal with this. At the very least, well 
: enough to send unsolvable items to an error report.
: ...
: The system accepts commands just fine so long as I can compensate for 
: some differences. The issue with garbled feedback applies only to "screen 
: grabs".  Using the kermit session record some "screens" just have 
: "interuptions" with serial communication data and some seem completely 
: broken and unrecognizable. I think the kermit session logging is not the 
: way for me to correctly capture the feedback from the system.
:
Session logging has nothing to do with scripting.  If your script is
supposed to be interacting with a remote menu or whatever, then the script
uses INPUT to read incoming material and reacts to it with OUTPUT.

But any form of scripting relies on the messages, prompts, menus, etc,
being received intact.  If you can't predict what is going to come, how can
you reasonably write a script to react to it?

If you have a network connection, there should be no garbling because
network protocols take care of error correction and flow control.  If you
have a serial port or modem and you're getting garbage, you need to fix
the garbage.  If it's a modem, you need to be using an error-detecting and
-correcting protocol between the two modems, and then (mode or direct
connection) you need to have the most effective possible form of flow
control enabled, which normally would be RTS/CTS (a.k.a. "hardware flow
control").

: This week I have individual items running through 2 processes from a list 
: thanks to the online kermit documentation. Adding an option for a third 
: process and a useable kermit or bash menu will bring it up to snuff as a 
: beta usable to others.
:
: Thanks for all the info so far.
:
Sure.  And remember, the more specifics you give about your connection,
the behavior of the applicaiton you're scripting, etc, the better we can
help you.

- Frank

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:47 +0000, Frank da Cruz wrote:
> C-Kermit can handle text-mode dialogs just fine, and for that matter
> also menu-driven dialogs, if you can do this without specific reference
> to screen positions and coordinates.  For example, the host application
> paints a manu and at the bottom it prints "Choice?" and the user is
> supposed to enter the number (or whatever) of the desired menu item. 
> Well, if "Choice?" is the last thing that the host sends (which is
> something you can tell from a session log), then:
> 
>   clear input
>   input 10 Choice?
>   if failure (do something)
>   output 3\13

I have the input, if failure, output routine going okay. I am currently 
using a generic FAIL message and will add better notices where needed.

The trouble is that each feature is not exactally the same at all times. 
As I said I think kermit can deal with this. At the very least, well 
enough to send unsolvable items to an error report.

> On the other hand, if you really need to reference specific screen
> coordinates or the contents of specifi screen fields , you can do this
> with Kermit 95 on Windows because, unlike C-Kermit, in incorporates its
> own terminal emulator and knows what is on the screen and where.

The system accepts commands just fine so long as I can compensate for 
some differences. The issue with garbled feedback applies only to "screen 
grabs".  Using the kermit session record some "screens" just have 
"interuptions" with serial communication data and some seem completely 
broken and unrecognizable. I think the kermit session logging is not the 
way for me to correctly capture the feedback from the system.

The ability to "screen grab" is very secondary to kermit being useful for 
my project.

This week I have individual items running through 2 processes from a list 
thanks to the online kermit documentation. Adding an option for a third 
process and a useable kermit or bash menu will bring it up to snuff as a 
beta usable to others.

Thanks for all the info so far.



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On 2007-12-20, 2damn <2damn@nospam.com> wrote:
: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:47 +0000, Frank da Cruz wrote:
:> C-Kermit can handle text-mode dialogs just fine, and for that matter
:> also menu-driven dialogs, if you can do this without specific reference
:> to screen positions and coordinates.  For example, the host application
:> paints a manu and at the bottom it prints "Choice?" and the user is
:> supposed to enter the number (or whatever) of the desired menu item. 
:> Well, if "Choice?" is the last thing that the host sends (which is
:> something you can tell from a session log), then:
:> 
:>   clear input
:>   input 10 Choice?
:>   if failure (do something)
:>   output 3\13
:
: I have the input, if failure, output routine going okay. I am currently 
: using a generic FAIL message and will add better notices where needed.
:
: The trouble is that each feature is not exactally the same at all times. 
: As I said I think kermit can deal with this. At the very least, well 
: enough to send unsolvable items to an error report.
: ...
: The system accepts commands just fine so long as I can compensate for 
: some differences. The issue with garbled feedback applies only to "screen 
: grabs".  Using the kermit session record some "screens" just have 
: "interuptions" with serial communication data and some seem completely 
: broken and unrecognizable. I think the kermit session logging is not the 
: way for me to correctly capture the feedback from the system.
:
Session logging has nothing to do with scripting.  If your script is
supposed to be interacting with a remote menu or whatever, then the script
uses INPUT to read incoming material and reacts to it with OUTPUT.

But any form of scripting relies on the messages, prompts, menus, etc,
being received intact.  If you can't predict what is going to come, how can
you reasonably write a script to react to it?

If you have a network connection, there should be no garbling because
network protocols take care of error correction and flow control.  If you
have a serial port or modem and you're getting garbage, you need to fix
the garbage.  If it's a modem, you need to be using an error-detecting and
-correcting protocol between the two modems, and then (mode or direct
connection) you need to have the most effective possible form of flow
control enabled, which normally would be RTS/CTS (a.k.a. "hardware flow
control").

: This week I have individual items running through 2 processes from a list 
: thanks to the online kermit documentation. Adding an option for a third 
: process and a useable kermit or bash menu will bring it up to snuff as a 
: beta usable to others.
:
: Thanks for all the info so far.
:
Sure.  And remember, the more specifics you give about your connection,
the behavior of the applicaiton you're scripting, etc, the better we can
help you.

- Frank

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jcluthe@gmail.com <jcluthe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to convert data that I'm getting via serial port to a .csv file
> on the fly all day every day. Anyone know how to make this happen in
> the simplest way possible? Can sed listen on a serial port? I
> understand how sed works, but I have never really used it. I have
> access to several different O/S's and lots of hardware, I prefer to do
> this in RHEL5 to keep the cyber security folks happy.......We have a
> satellite up2date server ...etc.etc. but I could run Fedora if needed.

I used kermit to log serial data to a file constantly, switching log files
every midnight.  It could also stream to a pipe, so you could manipulate
the data on the fly, if the built in scripting wasn't enough.

It's probably on your Linux distro already.
comp.protocols.kermit.misc
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html

-- 
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:28:26 -0800, smlunatick wrote:

> I need to transfer several folders, sub-folders and files from a failing
> SCO server over to a new Red Hat server.  Unfortunately, the DAT 72
> drive does not seem to like the older DAT 2 cartridge so reading off a
> type "seems" to be out.  I have tried with ftb but it does not seem to
> create the folders "on the fly" as the files transfer.
> 
> What can I look at?

I would use c-kermit to do this. There are binaries and source for both 
systems available from The Kermit Project at Columbia University.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

While c-kermit is "free" to download and use I recommend buying the 
manual for it as that is how the project supports itself. If you want to 
follow-up with folks that know more about c-kermit then subscribe to the 
comp.protocols.kermit.misc newsgroup. I have added that group to this 
reply.

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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In comp.protocols.kermit.misc smlunatick <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tried kermit but will not purchase the manual.  This is a "one-shot"
> deal so I will not ba using the kermit after this transfer.

I used kermit to do full hierarchy copies from one Unix system to another
every night for years.  Maybe we misunderstand your need.

-- 
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:27:40 -0800, smlunatick wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:28:26 -0800, smlunatick wrote:
> > I need to transfer several folders, sub-folders and files from a
> > failing SCO server over to a new Red Hat server. Â [...]
[...]
> Tried kermit but will not purchase the manual.  This is a "one-shot"
> deal so I will not ba using the kermit after this transfer. Kermit does
> not do what I am looking for

The c-kermit *I* use from Columbia University *will* copy entire trees 
from one system to another over any data connection I can make between 
them. Which one did *you* try? Did you even *try* the c-kermit software 
from Columbia University? Get it, load it up, type "help send" and "help 
get" then read all the options paying attention to "/RECURSIVE". If that 
will not do what you said you want then you misstated what you want.

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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Subject: Help with CPVGEN sources for TurboDOS system?
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G'day all,

I'm trying desperately to rescue a terminally ill TurboDOS system. It 
has no working floppy controller, and the hard drive is spinning down 
for the last time! TurboDOS is an "extension" of CP/M 2.2 - it has most 
of the same BDOS calls, but also an extra set of T-calls for better I/O 
and so on. Most "standard" CP/M 2.2 applications (like KERMIT, XMODEM, 
etc) work perfectly, if inefficiently without modification.

I've got L80 and M80, and all the usual editors (WS, etc), but while I 
can compile and link the asm sources for the system-independent code, I 
just can't get the linker to link the CPVGEN.HEX code in properly.

By "properly", I mean it links in, but running the final COM file 
results in an immediate exit to the prompt with no messages or any other 
activity that I can see.

Luckily, I also have Turbo Pascal 3.01, so I've been able to write a 
simple download/parse routine to get the source and hex files on to the 
system, so I might be able to build something myself - but that's going 
to take time that the system just doesn't have left.

I tried to use the bootstrap routines, but because it's running 
TurboDOS, there is no SAVE.COM equivalent, so while I can use DDT to 
load and merge the hex sources (from the /a subdir on the kermit 
server), I can't run or save the merged file.

I'm running out of options, and after 2 days spent trolling mail and 
news archives, I know the CPVGEN source used to be available, and I know 
that at least one person successfully compiled and ran Kermit 3.x on a 
TurboDOS system - so it's been done, but I can't for the life of me find 
any other reference to the asm sources.

I've spent two or three hours disassembling the DDT'd hex file for 
CPVGEN, but of course that doesn't work properly once the instruction 
stream gets out of sync with the disassembled addresses.

Any ideas, comments, or suggestions would be most welcome.

Kind regards,
PCPete
PCPete at audiography dot com dot au

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On Apr 1, 6:32 pm, PC Pete <PCP...@audiography.com.au> wrote:
>
> I've got L80 and M80, and all the usual editors (WS, etc), but while I
> can compile and link the asm sources for the system-independent code, I
> just can't get the linker to link the CPVGEN.HEX code in properly.


Normally, a .hex file is not something that needs to be linked. It is
a hex representation of an executable (.com, whatever) file.


> I tried to use the bootstrap routines, but because it's running
> TurboDOS, there is no SAVE.COM equivalent, so while I can use DDT to
> load and merge the hex sources (from the /a subdir on the kermit
> server), I can't run or save the merged file.


See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/c/td*


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Subject: Re: Help with CPVGEN sources for TurboDOS system?
From: PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au>

In article <e73d7997-23ad-48d4-b078-278b0c2a3027
@r9g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, you say...
 > Normally, a .hex file is not something that needs to be linked. It is
 > a hex representation of an executable (.com, whatever) file.

Yeah, and that's where I'm stuck - I can load the hex files using ddt,
and even run them once, but there's a problem with the load addresses,
and the run'd image prints up the kermit prompt and fails with hex data
being "seen" as the commands. But that's closer than I've ever got
yet... Here's what I see when I merge the compiled cpsker with the
downloaded cpvgen:

0E}ddt cpsker.hex
DDT VERS 2.2
NEXT  PC
70AD 0127
-icpvgen.hex
-r
NEXT  PC
73C8 0000
-g100
Kermit-80 v4.11 configured for Generic CP/M-80 with Generic (Dumb) CRT
Terminal

For help, type ? at any point in a command
Kermit-80      0E:>0240D0A535061636B3A2024E0
?Unrecognized command
Kermit-80      0E:>:0000000000
?Unrecognized command
Kermit-80      0E:>
Kermit-80      0E:>30240D0A5374617274696E6
?Unrecognized command
?Not confirmed
?Not confirmed
?Not confirmed
...etc....
?Not confirmed
?Not confirmed
?Not confirmed
0E}
 >
 >
 > See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/c/td*
 >
 >
Thanks for the reference, I'm about to reverse-hex the hex data and try
it out... I'll try and update here shortly.

I do appreciate you taking the time to forward the td reference, I
couldn't find it in the sites I was looking on. Probably I didn't look
long or hard enough!

Cheers,
PCP

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On 2008-04-02, PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
: G'day all,
:
: I'm trying desperately to rescue a terminally ill TurboDOS system. It 
: has no working floppy controller, and the hard drive is spinning down 
: for the last time! TurboDOS is an "extension" of CP/M 2.2 - it has most 
: of the same BDOS calls, but also an extra set of T-calls for better I/O 
: and so on. Most "standard" CP/M 2.2 applications (like KERMIT, XMODEM, 
: etc) work perfectly, if inefficiently without modification.
: ....
:
: I'm running out of options, and after 2 days spent trolling mail and 
: news archives, I know the CPVGEN source used to be available, and I know 
: that at least one person successfully compiled and ran Kermit 3.x on a 
: TurboDOS system - so it's been done, but I can't for the life of me find 
: any other reference to the asm sources.
:
There is no CKVGEN.ASM.  I apologize for the inadequate or misleading
documentation, but I believe the thing to do is to edit CPXTYP.ASM
and change the definition for one and only one of the system types
(in this case "gener") from FALSE to TRUE.  Or if TurboDOS is more like
CP/M 3 than CP/M 2.2, do this for "cpm3" rather than "gener".

And as Marc Sapiro noted (and I forgot until just now) there is also a
binary for TurboDOS, available in both straight hex (not Intel hex)
format and UUencoded.  The hex is about 52K, so it should be "just" a
question of getting it into your box in one piece somehow and
dehexifying it. 

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> There is no CKVGEN.ASM.  I apologize for the inadequate or misleading
> documentation, but I believe the thing to do is to edit CPXTYP.ASM
> and change the definition for one and only one of the system types
> (in this case "gener") from FALSE to TRUE.  Or if TurboDOS is more like
> CP/M 3 than CP/M 2.2, do this for "cpm3" rather than "gener".
> 
Thanks, Frank, that makes a bit more sense to me. I did a lot of 
assembly programming (like you, too long ago and too far away to want to 
remember how old that makes me! :)), and I never ever linked in hex 
sources with any rel or mac files. That's what was driving me nuts - the 
doco actually states the system-independent source must be compiled, 
then linked (merged using DDT) with the system-dependent hex file, and 
instructions for how to build the system-dependent files aren't 
mentioned anywhere I've looked - it all seems to be "pre-built", which 
seems a bit strange, unless there's proprietary code or licence issues.

> And as Marc Sapiro noted (and I forgot until just now) there is also a
> binary for TurboDOS, available in both straight hex (not Intel hex)
> format and UUencoded.  The hex is about 52K, so it should be "just" a
> question of getting it into your box in one piece somehow and
> dehexifying it. 
> 
> - Frank

I've downloaded the ASCII hex, de-hexed the TD binary (I still had the 
Turbo Pascal source I wrote in 1989 for that exact problem on the target 
system, which was a really nice break), and run it - and it starts up, 
then before a prompt appears, it crashes out. Actually, it resets the 
CPU completely, which is what happens on this system when the transient 
BDOS portion is overwritten. I've even tried running it in Bank 0, but 
the ccp can't load it, I've got less than 26k free in bank 0.

I suspect (and my memory is a bit hazy) that it's because I'm running it 
on a SLAVE processor, not the same processor configured as a standalone 
CPU system (it's the Pulsar Z80B I'm doing this all on, with a Pulsar 
80186 master CPU, running TurboDOS 1.4). That's going to be a problem, 
because I don't have a working floppy drive - I have plenty of CP/M 2.2 
and standalone TurboDOS boot floppies that I know are configured for 
this system, but there's no way of getting access to them, even if I 
could remember which of the 16 jumpers and 8 switches and replacement 
PALs I need to turn the slave into a standalone/master...

If nothing else, it's been a blast finding all this again, and I'm 
flabbergasted at how helpful the few remaining folks have been. I really 
hope I can return the favour.

Back to configuring... and crossing fingers.

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Actually, I think there is "some stuff" missing from the archive. 
(understatement!)

In aavsys.txt, it does specify ASM source for TurboDOS (by Mark Eichin), 
but in the ftp site, there's only the hex binary and uue and ann files.

... Ok, I'm looking through the files I downloaded from the kermit/a 
directory, and I'm looking at the cpxxxx.asm files.

 From what I can see, I need to compile :
   CPXVDU.ASM
   CPXTYP
   CPXSYS
   CPXSY2
   CPXSWT
   CPXLNK
   CPXCOM
   CPXAPP
.. are there any others I need to be aware of?

Or, to save you wasting your valuable time, is there a "master" file 
(like cpsker) that lists all the other files and/or equates I need to 
compile and link to get the system-dependent part of a generic kermit 4 
system implementation working?

I'm really sorry to ask all of this of you guys, but so far I've spent 
around 35 hours and looked at 115 sites (102 of them now dead) and750+ 
pages of news archives, bbs lists, resource archives, uunet archives, 
and more...

I'm just a bit lost at the moment, if I can find a touchstone for what I 
need and where I can get it, then I can stop bugging people with better 
things to do than answer questions for 20 year-old code. Even better, I 
can then document it and put it somewhere so no-one else has to go 
through this. The resources available are amazing, it's just finding the 
appropriate ones! And I've got so MUCH stuff on the dying system, that I 
know I can give something back if I can get some transfer happening, but 
I'm just spinning my wheels here.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
My apologies, all, I did not read all the way through the user guide.

I now know (hopefully) which asm files to be compiled.

I'm having some fun trying to identify the overlay address, as it's 
defined as $-lnkflg, but then the lnkflg address needs to contain 
lnksiz... I'll do some .printx and recompile so I have a clearer idea!

I've at least documented the changes that needed to be made, I hope 
these will be useful when I've confirmed all the mods.

Again, sorry for not R-ing TFM.
-PCPete

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OK, I'm sorting most of the problems out now. Kinda.

I can now almost compile the cpxxxx sources, but my M80 keeps throwing 
macro overflow errors.

It looks like my version doesn't like an included file including another 
file more than 2 levels deep, and that's exactly what's happening.

I'll do some more playing to see if I can avoid the included chaining by 
  making the cpxtyp.mac a bit less flexible to start with - then I can 
fart around with getting a new version of these tools.



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PC Pete wrote:
> OK, I'm sorting most of the problems out now. Kinda.
> 
> I can now almost compile the cpxxxx sources, but my M80 keeps throwing 
> macro overflow errors.
> 
> It looks like my version doesn't like an included file including another 
> file more than 2 levels deep, and that's exactly what's happening.
> 
> I'll do some more playing to see if I can avoid the included chaining by 
>  making the cpxtyp.mac a bit less flexible to start with - then I can 
> fart around with getting a new version of these tools.
> 
> 
Nope, wrong again. I do get a macro (or memory, the M80 manual and doc 
file are extraordinarily unhelpful, that's one bad side I forgot about 
M/L80) overflow at line 458 in CPXVDU.ASM,and line 1360 in CPXSYS2.ASM, 
and it is happening within an "open" IF directive (these are included 
from line 679 in CPXTYP.ASM), but I'm not sure why that particular 
equate is not getting flagged for pass 2 - especially this is failing on 
the first pass of the assembler!

I've included the full output here, if anyone could have a look and see 
if the problem rings any bells, I'd very much appreciate the hand. I 
just can't remember all the pitfalls.

Back to the grind. I'm sure it's going to be blindingly, stupendously 
obvious...

0E}m80 cpxtyp=cpxtyp.mac
* sysfam set TRUE *
* CPXCOM.MAC *
* CPXSWT.MAC *
* Assembling Generic KERMIT-80 *
* CPXSYS.MAC *
* CPXSY2.MAC *
* CPXVDU.MAC *
* generic CRT selected *
M                        C      ovlend     equ     $     ; End of overlay
* sysfam set TRUE *
* CPXCOM.MAC *
* CPXSWT.MAC *
* Assembling Generic KERMIT-80 *
* CPXSYS.MAC *
* CPXSY2.MAC *
M 733E                   C      ovlend     EQU     $
* CPXVDU.MAC *
* generic CRT selected *
M 73C0                   C      ovlend     equ     $     ; End of overlay

3 Fatal error(s)

0E}

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PC Pete wrote:

> 0E}m80 cpxtyp=cpxtyp.mac
> * sysfam set TRUE *
> * CPXCOM.MAC *
> * CPXSWT.MAC *
> * Assembling Generic KERMIT-80 *
> * CPXSYS.MAC *
> * CPXSY2.MAC *
> * CPXVDU.MAC *
> * generic CRT selected *
> M                        C      ovlend     equ     $     ; End of overlay
> * sysfam set TRUE *
> * CPXCOM.MAC *
> * CPXSWT.MAC *
> * Assembling Generic KERMIT-80 *
> * CPXSYS.MAC *
> * CPXSY2.MAC *
> M 733E                   C      ovlend     EQU     $
> * CPXVDU.MAC *
> * generic CRT selected *
> M 73C0                   C      ovlend     equ     $     ; End of overlay
> 
> 3 Fatal error(s)
> 
> 0E}

There does seem to be a logic error in the includes, and I seem to have 
"fixed" the problem and the code now compiles fine, but I still can't 
run it or save it as a COM image on the TurboDOS system. To run it at 
all, I have to load the compiled hex images in DDT, then G, which craps 
out with the same wierd error messages.

I've also compiled this on a stock CP/M 2.2 system, and I get the same 
errors (multiple ovlends), and the code compiles to the same "size" - 
i.e. the end of the independent code is way past 7000. However, that all 
seemed to work on that system, whereas the same isn't true on the 
TurboDOS system.

I've traced through the initialisation code in CPSMIT.MAC, but 
unfortunately my debug is absolutely awful - I can't download or capture 
the PRN file generated by M80 when compiling the cpsker code, because 
the terminal emulator won't wrap, so my PRN file display has no 
comments, while the "clean" source obviously has no addresses I can 
match - so when I get lost, I have to get the PC from DDT, look it up in 
the truncated PRN, then match that (remember, no line numbers in this 
version of M80) to the "raw" asm source to get my bearings.

I'm trying a few alternatives to that nightmare, but the terminal 
emulator won't capture plain ASCII, it will only download using 
x/y/zmodem/kermit... which completes the circle of life. And if I use a 
dedicated windows build of a serial file transfer, it doesn't work 
because I still don't have x/y/z/k on the target system. Enough already. 
Sorry.

The logic problem I see is that with the 'gener' and 'crt' equates set 
to true, both CPXSY2.ASM and CPXVDU.ASM are included (in that order), 
but ovlend is defined in both files and both lines are parsed. It looks 
as though the logic to avoid duplicate definitions worked using LASM, 
but obviously not many people would have been interested in testing the 
L80 logic as well. I mean, what kind of loser would want to do THAT? 
...oh, right, that would be mel80...:)

If it's OK with everyone, I'll see if I can sort the logic out, and post 
my changes for comment. Maybe then that might find a home on the archive 
site?

I realise this is 17 years too late, but it would be a shame if someone 
else had to bite the same bullet.

I've also documented the changes that needed to be made to both the file 
formats (M80 and L80 on both my two CPM systems (TurboDOS and MyZ80 
emulator) freak out at the unix-style source) and the names (MAC instead 
of ASM), and all the equates that needed to be changed/set.

I'm sorry to waste so much bandwidth on such a little issue.

Thanks to all for your wonderful ideas, it's nice to have someone more 
experienced offer help, especially when you're as rusty as I am!

That was kind of like getting castrated with two bricks. Hopefully it's 
getting closer now...

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On 2008-04-04, PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
: ...
: Thanks to all for your wonderful ideas, it's nice to have someone more 
: experienced offer help, especially when you're as rusty as I am!
:
I'm more rusty.  The last time I actually worked with this code was over
20 years ago and I'm sure it goes without saying that I don't have any
machines here where I could do it again.  I don't understand why the "native
TurboDOS" version doesn't work, but then I've never even seen TurboDOS.
Unfortunately I don't see any other grizzed CP/M Kermit veterans popping
up with advice.

The version we have up on our FTP server is 4.11, which was done by Mike
Freeman, but I haven't heard from him in years.  But perhaps this version
exceeds some bounds that were not exceeded by earlier versions.  There's an
older version -- I'm not sure exactly which one -- here:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpm

I also noticed this directory, which I had forgotten about:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools

It contains source for LASM and MLOAD.

But maybe there's a simpler approach.  The object of the game is to get
your files OFF TurboDOS and into the PC, right?  Getting things INTO TurboDOS
is evidently problematic.

And both TurboDOS and the PC support RTS/CTS flow control, right?  So for any
text file on TurboDOS, shouldn't you be able to TYPE it to the serial port?
And have the PC terminal emulator capture it to a file?  It's not elegant, but
you only have to do it "just this once".  If it's really RTS/CTS flow control,
you should be able to do this at any speed that TurboDOS supports and you have
a true null modem cable:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cable.html

If you have Kermit 95 on the Windows box, the commands would be LOG SESSION
(to start logging) and CLOSE SESSION (to stop).

If you have to send binary files, you'd have to ASCIIize them first, of
course.

With some programming on each end, you could even automate the process.
The TurboDOS program would loop through all the files, sending first some
kind of distinctive text header containing the filename, like:

  >>> BEGIN filename-goes-here <<<

then the file contents, then (not strictly necessary) a footer:

  >>> END <<<

A Kermit script could be written that waits for a header:

  INPUT 9999 <<<

parses it (I'll supply details if you're interested), and then opens
a session log using the filename from the header:

  LOG SESSION filename-goes-here

and waits for the footer:

  INPUT 9999 >>> END <<<
  IF FAILURE (fill in what to do if this fails)
  CLOSE SESSION

All this in a loop.  If you wanted to get fancy, you could also have an
end-of-session footer to terminate the loop.  Or other embellishments like
transmitting the file date.

With a short cable and the high speed of the Windows box and hardware flow
control driven by the receiver, you should have pretty much error-free
transfers.

Sorry to not respond to all your posts promptly but as I might have mentioned,
Columbia U no longer supports netnews so I have to find the time to go
elsewhere to read news.

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> On 2008-04-04, PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
> : ...
> : Thanks to all for your wonderful ideas, it's nice to have someone more 
> : experienced offer help, especially when you're as rusty as I am!
> :
> I'm more rusty.  The last time I actually worked with this code was over
> 20 years ago and I'm sure it goes without saying that I don't have any
> machines here where I could do it again.  I don't understand why the "native
> TurboDOS" version doesn't work, but then I've never even seen TurboDOS.
> Unfortunately I don't see any other grizzed CP/M Kermit veterans popping
> up with advice.
> 
It's not that surprising, Frank, I'm more surprised that this newsgroup 
is still alive and kicking at all! Mind you, it's a bit like going into 
a wonderful old hotel that's been bypassed by new highways - the 
furniture and fittings are still there, one or two "grizzled" staff 
greet the infrequent guests, but we watch the old billboards fade while 
dust quietly gathers in the corners...

> I also noticed this directory, which I had forgotten about:
> 
>   ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools
> 
> It contains source for LASM and MLOAD.
> 
That's a good find - I didn't dig too deeply, I was too fixated on 
finding other mirrors with different source sets. I'll try that out (I 
think LASM/MLOAD might deal with the merging problems better than DDT.

> But maybe there's a simpler approach.  The object of the game is to get
> your files OFF TurboDOS and into the PC, right?  Getting things INTO TurboDOS
> is evidently problematic.
> 
Yep, this is (for now) a one-way only problem. I have to get the oil OFF 
the sinking tanker.

> And both TurboDOS and the PC support RTS/CTS flow control, right?  So for any
> text file on TurboDOS, shouldn't you be able to TYPE it to the serial port?
> And have the PC terminal emulator capture it to a file?  It's not elegant, but
> you only have to do it "just this once".  If it's really RTS/CTS flow control,
> you should be able to do this at any speed that TurboDOS supports and you have
> a true null modem cable:
> 
>   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cable.html
> 
You read my mind. The problem for me is that on a 64-bit OS, none of the 
terminal emulators work properly (the only one that offers some help in 
the form of waiting for simple characters and so on is a real 16-bit 
Windows 95 emulator with no buffer capture).

> If you have Kermit 95 on the Windows box, the commands would be LOG SESSION
> (to start logging) and CLOSE SESSION (to stop).
> 
At the moment, the only kermit I have working is the one that's rolled 
into the terminal emulator, and that's not programmable - it just sends 
or receives kermit "packets" - if it doesn't receive kermit protocol 
information, it treats the data as bad.

> If you have to send binary files, you'd have to ASCIIize them first, of
> course.
> 
> With some programming on each end, you could even automate the process.
> The TurboDOS program would loop through all the files, sending first some
> kind of distinctive text header containing the filename, like:
> 
>   >>> BEGIN filename-goes-here <<<
> 
> then the file contents, then (not strictly necessary) a footer:
> 
>   >>> END <<<
> 
> A Kermit script could be written that waits for a header:
> 
>   INPUT 9999 <<<
> 
> parses it (I'll supply details if you're interested), and then opens
> a session log using the filename from the header:
> 
>   LOG SESSION filename-goes-here
> 
> and waits for the footer:
> 
>   INPUT 9999 >>> END <<<
>   IF FAILURE (fill in what to do if this fails)
>   CLOSE SESSION
> 
> All this in a loop.  If you wanted to get fancy, you could also have an
> end-of-session footer to terminate the loop.  Or other embellishments like
> transmitting the file date.
> 
> With a short cable and the high speed of the Windows box and hardware flow
> control driven by the receiver, you should have pretty much error-free
> transfers.
> 
I've already written ascii-fiers and de-ascii-fiers that work, I was 
just hoping to avoid having to loop through the 7,000-odd files on 40 
user areas on 5 drive volumes, many of which are now corrupt or 
unreadable. But I've already spent more time trying to find out why 
Kermit doesn't compile than I would have spent doing a 
findfirst/findnext looped transfer of files in a simple protocol as 
you've suggested.

> Sorry to not respond to all your posts promptly but as I might have mentioned,
> Columbia U no longer supports netnews so I have to find the time to go
> elsewhere to read news.
> 
> - Frank

Don't apologise, it's me who should apologise for spewing updates and 
data here without fully understanding the intricacies of the kermit 
compile requirements, and 15+ years since I last M80'd in anger.

I appreciate every word you've been able to suggest. I'll spend a couple 
more hours to see if I can get any debugging done (after compiling and 
linking with masm/mload) and using my newly-captured CPSKER.PRN, and if 
not, I'll bite the bullet and 'do the washing by hand'.

I've also finally got my WinXP-32 virtual machine running, that will 
give me true access to the comm ports on the PC in a 32-bit environment, 
which will open up some other transfer options with different serial 
tools (I hope)! I've also dusted off and fired up my PC-XT with a whole 
bunch of serial comms software (Telix Procomm, MS-DOS kermit, etc) on 
it. Unfortunately the serial hardware access in the MS-DOS virtual 
machines isn't as robust as in the XP virtual machine. So there are a 
few bridges yet to burn...

Thanks again for all the ideas and suggestions, I really appreciate the 
help. I really really really want to be able to give something back. But 
don't hold your breath...

Kind regards
PC Pete



-- 
--
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa, not screaming 
and crying, like the passengers in his car." -Unremembered source from 
the (19)90's.

From PCPete@audiography.com.au Mon Apr 14 13:27:49 2008
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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> The version we have up on our FTP server is 4.11, which was done by Mike
> Freeman, but I haven't heard from him in years.  But perhaps this version
> exceeds some bounds that were not exceeded by earlier versions.  There's an
> older version -- I'm not sure exactly which one -- here:
> 
>   ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpm
> 
> I also noticed this directory, which I had forgotten about:
> 
>   ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools
> 
> It contains source for LASM and MLOAD.

Actually Frank, those files are inaccessible via anonymous ftp. I can cd 
to the directory, but I can't download any of the files using either a 
dos ftp client nor a web-based (html) ftp client.

I'll have a look for those files on different archives and see what I 
can get.

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On Apr 6, 5:04 pm, PC Pete <PCP...@audiography.com.au> wrote:
> Frank da Cruz wrote:
> > The version we have up on our FTP server is 4.11, which was done by Mike
> > Freeman, but I haven't heard from him in years.  But perhaps this version
> > exceeds some bounds that were not exceeded by earlier versions.  There's an
> > older version -- I'm not sure exactly which one -- here:
>
> >  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpm
>
> > I also noticed this directory, which I had forgotten about:
>
> >  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools
>
> > It contains source for LASM and MLOAD.
>
> Actually Frank, those files are inaccessible via anonymous ftp. I can cd
> to the directory, but I can't download any of the files using either a
> dos ftp client nor a web-based (html) ftp client.
>
> I'll have a look for those files on different archives and see what I
> can get.


The files in those directories are not world readable. I'm sure Frank
will fix it as soon as he sees your post.

I wish I could be more help, but every time I think about this, I have
to stop and clean my keyboard because of all the rust particles that
fall out of my head. I haven't been in those dusty corners in a very
long time.

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator

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Mark Sapiro wrote:
> The files in those directories are not world readable. I'm sure Frank
> will fix it as soon as he sees your post.

That would explain a lot! I've actually just slurped the \c\ group of 
files just so I can search and view them faster than the WWW or ftp 
clients can. I hope nobody minds. Heck, I've got enough storage to spare 
to archive the entire site I think, but that might not be a good idea...

> I wish I could be more help, but every time I think about this, I have
> to stop and clean my keyboard because of all the rust particles that
> fall out of my head. I haven't been in those dusty corners in a very
> long time.
Don't apologise, I'm rusty as well. I'm still figuring out the bloody 
parameter strings for TurboDOS, let alone the M80/L80 progs...

I've actually tried building the TP4KER source from Terje Mathiesen's 
source, but it depends on some object files that my TP5/6/7 system 
doesn't have. Definitely a blast from the past, remembering how to build 
and compile to disk!

And don't get me started with debugging - that was my life back then and 
I can't believe how much we've come to rely on integrated debuggers - 
Allah forfend, I was putting printf() and Writeln() and .printx 
statements all through the source files I've found. There's definitely a 
lot to be said for modern debuggers. Still, it's all good fun.

If I can't compile the MASM/LASM source, I'll definitely sit down in 
front of my emulated local CP/M window and do what I should have done in 
the beginning - rolled my own clunky serial transfer code. Sometimes 
shortcuts definitely AIN'T.

Thanks all for your help, I'll keep looking and trying I guess.
-PCP

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On 2008-04-07, PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:> The version we have up on our FTP server is 4.11, which was done by Mike
:> Freeman, but I haven't heard from him in years.  But perhaps this version
:> exceeds some bounds that were not exceeded by earlier versions.  There's an
:> older version -- I'm not sure exactly which one -- here:
:> 
:>   ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpm
:> 
:> I also noticed this directory, which I had forgotten about:
:> 
:>   ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools
:> 
:> It contains source for LASM and MLOAD.
:
: Actually Frank, those files are inaccessible via anonymous ftp. I can cd 
: to the directory, but I can't download any of the files using either a 
: dos ftp client nor a web-based (html) ftp client.
:
: I'll have a look for those files on different archives and see what I 
: can get.
:
The files are accessible by FTP if you don't have a firewall on your end
blocking access.

You can also get files from the Kermit archive with HTTP by following the
link at the bottom of the Kermit Project home page.

- Frank

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On 2008-04-07, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
:> >  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/old/misc/cpmtools
:>
: The files in those directories are not world readable. I'm sure Frank
: will fix it as soon as he sees your post.
:
Oops, sorry again for the delay, and for the mistake.  Contrary to sentiments
recently aired here, Kermit is very much alive and there is a great deal of
FTP activity, and I get a truckload of complaints about "FTP doesn't work"
every day, and until now it's been because of firewalls.  The permissions
are fixed now.

- Frank

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Here is a question that came in today that I might be too old to answer :-)

> I went through all of the "frequently asked " questions listed under 
> "Support" on your website and did not find a question or reference to my 
> concern.
>
> The question. Is there any support in Kermit for dial up connection from 
> a notebook (Windows 2000), through a cell phone, to a unix box (SCO Open 
> Server) for trouble shooting applications?
> 
> I can now connect through land lines but when I am on the road I need a 
> facility that allows me to use a cell phone, usb (if necessary) and  any 
> features of Windows 2000, to connect to the unix box wirelessly.
> 
It's up to the maker of your cell phone and/or your ISP.  Kermit can make
serial port, modem, and text-mode Internet connections (such as Telnet,
SSH, rlogin, ftp, etc).

I don't have direct experience with this, but it appears that some cell
phones can act as modems.  Here are some web pages that talk about it:

  http://lifehacker.com/software/cell-phones/geek-to-live-use-your-cell-phone-as-a-modem-175048.php

  http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/18/how-to-use-your-cdma-cellphone-as-a-usb-modem/

These and other pages talk about how to get on the Internet with Dial-Up
Networking (DUN) using a cell phone.  I didn't see a page that talks about
how to make a traditional computer-to-computer call with that same modem,
but it seems to me that if you can do one, you can do the other.  Once you
have a modem driver installed for the cell phone, you should be able to use
it like any other modem that you would call you SCO box with.

But that's pure speculation.  It's interesting, however, and I'd like to
hear about your experience.

Also I'm going to post this to the comp.protocols.kermit.misc newsgroup 
(without your name or email) in case anybody there can shed some light.

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> Here is a question that came in today that I might be too old to answer :-)
>>
>> The question. Is there any support in Kermit for dial up connection from 
>> a notebook (Windows 2000), through a cell phone, to a unix box (SCO Open 
>> Server) for trouble shooting applications?

You have lots of options:

Configure the notebook for dial on demand, then run Kermit

Manually dial, then run Kermit

Install a Kermit capable terminal emulator package. (I think TeraTerm 
and PUTTY both do this. I am not sure about the current version of 
Hyperterminal.)

Regards,

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> > The question. Is there any support in Kermit for dial up connection from 
> > a notebook (Windows 2000), through a cell phone, to a unix box (SCO Open 
> > Server) for trouble shooting applications?

> It's up to the maker of your cell phone and/or your ISP.  

Mostly, it's up to the ISP.  In the US, they say no.  Some people still
have a feature called CSD where they can connect via cellphone to a modem
in the Central Office.  It's just not offered any more.

-- 
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA  GPS: 38.8,-122.5

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> The files are accessible by FTP if you don't have a firewall on your end
> blocking access.
> 
> You can also get files from the Kermit archive with HTTP by following the
> link at the bottom of the Kermit Project home page.
> 
> - Frank

Thanks Frank, I've been able to download the hex and asm sources.

I'm so sorry to take so long to respond, I've been sidetracked by a DOS 
build problem on another ye olde system, and I haven't even thought 
"CP/M" for weeks...

When I get back into code build mode, I'll try and update here to let 
anyone else interested know... Watch this space.

Thanks again for your involvement. It's good to know Kermit is still 
very much a live project!
Kind regards,
PCPete

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On 2008-05-05, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
: PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
:
:> Thanks again for your involvement. It's good to know Kermit is still 
:> very much a live project!
:
: I like kermit. It is a pity about the restrictive licencing that makes 
: the source code effectively read-only, unless patches are used.
:
: The project would probably be a lot more active, if it was under an open 
: source licence that permits free modification of the source code and 
: distribution of modified versions.
:
: There is a gkermit package which is distributed under GPL, but this does 
: not contain connection establishment facilities. If gkermit supported 
: connection establishment, it would be great.
:
You probably know the history.  Kermit was "free software" long before there
was Open Source (TM), FSF, or GPL.  In the 80s and into the 90s, it was a
truly massive worldwide cooperative effort to cover every known computer and
operating system and you can see the results on our FTP site:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ftp/

It started as means to solve a local problem at Columbia University -- how
to interconnect and share files among PDP-10s (DEC-20s), IBM mainframes,
CP/M microcomputers, the then-brand-new IBM PC, and shortly thereafter
the Macintosh and 4.2BSD Unix, and this we did pretty much in-house as a
our job.  Since we were paid to do it, we were glad to share, and we
received a lot of other stuff developed elsewhere in the same spirit and
everybody benefited.

Other sites began contributing Kermit versions of their own for VMS,
PDP-11s, lots of different CP/M and DOS variations (in those days there
many DOS's, not just one), Data General, Honeywell, LISP machines, you name
it, and pretty soon we were spending more time dealing with platforms that
didn't even exist at Columbia than we were supporting Columbia's own user
community, which was (to tell the truth) a lot of fun.  But Columbia didn't
see the point in paying us to do things for the outside world and advised us
to shut down the Kermit Project and move on (this started as early as 1984).

That did not appeal to me, so in 1986 I proposed hiring a dedicated staff to
be paid from income received from fees we would charge for shipping the
software on magnetic tape and by selling books.  This worked OK for some
years but once the Internet removed the need for sending tapes through the
mail, we needed another source of income to keep the project alive and thus
was born Kermit 95.

Well, here we are 27 years later and the business aspects -- order
processing, charging, invoicing, dunning, budgets, reports, forecasts,
spreadsheets, and all the rest -- take up so much time that there is little
opportunity for development, plus, as you say, the restrictive license puts
people off who might otherwise be interested in contributing to the
development.

I would like nothing better than to take Kermit Open Source, but Columbia
will not fund an Open Source project.  If I could identify a stable source
of funding for, say, 5 years, I would do it in a flash.  But the bottom line
is, the Kermit Project must be paid for, one way or another and these days
the only viable income stream seems to be license fees.  It can't be done by
selling support contracts (we have tried that in the past) or coffee cups or
T-shirts.

I've approached numerous corporations and came close a few times, but
something always happens at the last moment (usually it's that the key
person vanishes without a trace, or the corporation itself, like DEC).
I keep trying.  This too takes a fair amount of time.

- Frank

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I'm using Kermit 95 v2.1.3 to run a terminal connection to a RSTS 
computer (the OS is genuine DEC, though it's running on a PC with an 
emulator, not PDP-11 hardware). On the RSTS computer, I'm running 
Kermit-11 (I have versions X3.60 and X4.64 available) for file transfers.

I just upgraded to a new desktop computer running Vista Business 
(previously I was on XP Pro), and now most times when I give a command 
that requires a response from the remote Kermit (such as Finish or GET), 
  it takes about 8 seconds before I get a command prompt back, instead 
of the 1-2 seconds previously (i.e., on my XP computer). The results are 
the same with both RSTS versions of Kermit. Any ideas on what's causing 
the delay and how to correct it?

Kelvin Smith
Bethlehem, PA
(remove 1111 for email)

From fdc@panix.com Tue May 13 13:19:13 2008
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On 2008-05-12, Kelvin Smith <smith.fcs1111@snet.net> wrote:
: I'm using Kermit 95 v2.1.3 to run a terminal connection to a RSTS 
: computer (the OS is genuine DEC, though it's running on a PC with an 
: emulator, not PDP-11 hardware). On the RSTS computer, I'm running 
: Kermit-11 (I have versions X3.60 and X4.64 available) for file transfers.
:
OK...

: I just upgraded to a new desktop computer running Vista Business 
: (previously I was on XP Pro), and now most times when I give a command 
: that requires a response from the remote Kermit (such as Finish or GET), 
:   it takes about 8 seconds before I get a command prompt back, instead 
: of the 1-2 seconds previously (i.e., on my XP computer). The results are 
: the same with both RSTS versions of Kermit. Any ideas on what's causing 
: the delay and how to correct it?
:
And you have Kermit 95, correct?  And Kermit 95 is running on the same
PC as the PDP-11 emulator?  In that case, it possible that either one or
both were affected by the upgrade to Vista.  If they are on separate PCs
then clearly the problem is isolated to the new one.

How is the connection being made?  Is it a null modem cable, or some kind
of "virtual" Windows serial port that is linked to the emulator's DH11 or
whatever?

Anyway, you can tell Kermit 95 to:

  set debug timestamps on
  log debug

and then send (say) a FINISH command.  The log will show where the pause
happened and that will be a clue.

: Kelvin Smith
: Bethlehem, PA
: (remove 1111 for email)

- Frank

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My goodness. How does one make sense of the debug information? In less 
than two minutes, I generated over 19000 lines. I actually was able to 
capture a Finish command that responded quickly, plus a second that 
responded slowly, so in theory the information we need is there, but I 
don't know how to ferret out what's going on.

Physical setup: Kermit 95 is on one PC, the PDP-11 emulator is on 
another. They're connected by a null modem running between the COM 
ports. It should be noted that the Kermit 95 machine is using a USB to 
COM adapter.

Kelvin Smith
Bethlehem, PA
(remove 1111 for email)

Frank da Cruz wrote:
> On 2008-05-12, Kelvin Smith <smith.fcs1111@snet.net> wrote:
> : I'm using Kermit 95 v2.1.3 to run a terminal connection to a RSTS 
> : computer (the OS is genuine DEC, though it's running on a PC with an 
> : emulator, not PDP-11 hardware). On the RSTS computer, I'm running 
> : Kermit-11 (I have versions X3.60 and X4.64 available) for file transfers.
> :
> OK...
> 
> : I just upgraded to a new desktop computer running Vista Business 
> : (previously I was on XP Pro), and now most times when I give a command 
> : that requires a response from the remote Kermit (such as Finish or GET), 
> :   it takes about 8 seconds before I get a command prompt back, instead 
> : of the 1-2 seconds previously (i.e., on my XP computer). The results are 
> : the same with both RSTS versions of Kermit. Any ideas on what's causing 
> : the delay and how to correct it?
> :
> And you have Kermit 95, correct?  And Kermit 95 is running on the same
> PC as the PDP-11 emulator?  In that case, it possible that either one or
> both were affected by the upgrade to Vista.  If they are on separate PCs
> then clearly the problem is isolated to the new one.
> 
> How is the connection being made?  Is it a null modem cable, or some kind
> of "virtual" Windows serial port that is linked to the emulator's DH11 or
> whatever?
> 
> Anyway, you can tell Kermit 95 to:
> 
>   set debug timestamps on
>   log debug
> 
> and then send (say) a FINISH command.  The log will show where the pause
> happened and that will be a clue.
> 
> : Kelvin Smith
> : Bethlehem, PA
> : (remove 1111 for email)
> 
> - Frank

From fdc@panix.com Fri May 16 13:47:22 2008
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On 2008-05-13, Kelvin Smith <smith.fcs1111@snet.net> wrote:
: My goodness. How does one make sense of the debug information? In less 
: than two minutes, I generated over 19000 lines. I actually was able to 
: capture a Finish command that responded quickly, plus a second that 
: responded slowly, so in theory the information we need is there, but I 
: don't know how to ferret out what's going on.
:
: Physical setup: Kermit 95 is on one PC, the PDP-11 emulator is on 
: another. They're connected by a null modem running between the COM 
: ports. It should be noted that the Kermit 95 machine is using a USB to 
: COM adapter.
:
You can send me the debug log if you like.  I'd look for the place where
there is a long separation between two timestamps and see what was the
last thing that happened before the delay occurred.

- Frank

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I don't know if this is worth checking:

gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
-DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
-DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
-I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
-DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ckuusx.c
ckuusx.c: In function 'ck_termset':
ckuusx.c:6181: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
ckuusx.c:6188: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
ckuusx.c:6195: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
-DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
-DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
-I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
-DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ckudia.c
ckudia.c: In function 'dialfail':
ckudia.c:4995: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
-DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
-DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
-I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
-DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ck_ssl.c
ck_ssl.c: In function 'tls_load_certs':
ck_ssl.c:1171: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
ck_ssl.c:1172: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

This is being compiled on Debian GNU/Linux unstable on a Pentium II machine.

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On 2008-06-04, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
: I don't know if this is worth checking:
:
: gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
: -DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
: -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
: -DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
: -I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
: -DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ckuusx.c
: ckuusx.c: In function 'ck_termset':
: ckuusx.c:6181: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
: ckuusx.c:6188: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
: ckuusx.c:6195: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
:
This is something in the termcap / termlib / ncurses library.  I'd say
if the file-transfer display still works OK (which is really the only
things that uses curses, except a few commands like CLEAR SCREEN), then
it's nothing to worry about.

: ck_ssl.c: In function 'tls_load_certs':
: ck_ssl.c:1171: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
: ck_ssl.c:1172: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
:
: This is being compiled on Debian GNU/Linux unstable on a Pentium II machine.
:
I'm told that these are nothing to worry about either.  We've always had
tons of warnings when building with the security libraries and header files,
yet the features still work OK when used.  Still, it would be nice avoid the
warnings.

A more serious issue has to do with the total replacement of DES functions
in OpenSSL in recent Fedora issues.

Anybody with knowledge in these areas who might want to lend a hand is
most welcome!

- Frank

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In article <slrng52q33.cri.fdc@panix2.panix.com>,
Frank da Cruz  <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote:
>On 2008-06-04, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
>: I don't know if this is worth checking:
>:
>: gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
>: -DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
>: -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
>: -DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
>: -I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
>: -DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ckuusx.c
>: ckuusx.c: In function 'ck_termset':
>: ckuusx.c:6181: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>: ckuusx.c:6188: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>: ckuusx.c:6195: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>:
>This is something in the termcap / termlib / ncurses library.  I'd say
>if the file-transfer display still works OK (which is really the only
>things that uses curses, except a few commands like CLEAR SCREEN), then
>it's nothing to worry about.
>
>: ck_ssl.c: In function 'tls_load_certs':
>: ck_ssl.c:1171: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>: ck_ssl.c:1172: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>:
>: This is being compiled on Debian GNU/Linux unstable on a Pentium II machine.
>:
>I'm told that these are nothing to worry about either.  We've always had
>tons of warnings when building with the security libraries and header files,
>yet the features still work OK when used.  Still, it would be nice avoid the
>warnings.


_ALL_ these statements are invocations of the 'debug()' macro.  'debug()'
expands to a function where the 4th parameter is defined as a CK_OFF_T.

The offending invocations all have a 4th parameter that is a "pointer to
something".  Which *VIOLATES* the specification of the dodebug() routine
(in ckuusx.c, line 4849) that the debug() macro expands to.

Anyway, the result is a "size mis-match" in these circumstances
between a (void *) and a CK_OFF_T.

CK_OFF_T is specced as a type big enough to hold a _file_ offset, and
since it's being compiled with _LARGEFILESOURCE this is a 64-bit qty.
_APPARENTLY_, the compilation options only use a 32-bit _program_ address-
space, thus generating the mis-match.

FIX:
 ckuusx.c -- change the last parameter of debug() from "" to 0 on all 3 lines.

 ck_ssl.c -- no obvious foolproof fix here.  Explicitly casting the last
       param of the macro to an 32-bit qty -- e.g. "debug(..((int32)ctx))"
       should work, as long as there is a defined 'int32' type.  
       `
       [ I'm assuming that sooner or later somebody _will_ try to compile    ]
       [ C-Kermit on a machine with 32-bit pointers, but only 16-bit ints.   ]
       [ If one decides that it is 'safe' to ignore that case, then a simple ]
       [ ((int)ctx) would work.                                              ]



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Robert Bonomi wrote, on 2008-06-20 10:52:
> In article <slrng52q33.cri.fdc@panix2.panix.com>,
> Frank da Cruz  <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote:
>> On 2008-06-04, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> : I don't know if this is worth checking:
>> :
>> : gcc-4.3 -O3 -march=pentium2 -funsigned-char -pipe -DPOSIX -DLINUX 
>> : -DNOCOTFMC -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
>> : -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -DCK_SSL -DCK_PAM -DZLIB -DCK_CURSES -DCK_POSIX_SIG 
>> : -DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DHAVE_CRYPT_H -DFNFLOAT -DCK_SHADOW 
>> : -I/usr/include/openssl  -DOPENSSL_097 
>> : -DKTARGET=\"linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam\" -c ckuusx.c
>> : ckuusx.c: In function 'ck_termset':
>> : ckuusx.c:6181: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>> : ckuusx.c:6188: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>> : ckuusx.c:6195: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>> :
>> This is something in the termcap / termlib / ncurses library.  I'd say
>> if the file-transfer display still works OK (which is really the only
>> things that uses curses, except a few commands like CLEAR SCREEN), then
>> it's nothing to worry about.
>>
>> : ck_ssl.c: In function 'tls_load_certs':
>> : ck_ssl.c:1171: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>> : ck_ssl.c:1172: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
>> :
>> : This is being compiled on Debian GNU/Linux unstable on a Pentium II machine.
>> :
>> I'm told that these are nothing to worry about either.  We've always had
>> tons of warnings when building with the security libraries and header files,
>> yet the features still work OK when used.  Still, it would be nice avoid the
>> warnings.
> 
> 
> _ALL_ these statements are invocations of the 'debug()' macro.  'debug()'
> expands to a function where the 4th parameter is defined as a CK_OFF_T.
> 
> The offending invocations all have a 4th parameter that is a "pointer to
> something".  Which *VIOLATES* the specification of the dodebug() routine
> (in ckuusx.c, line 4849) that the debug() macro expands to.
> 
> Anyway, the result is a "size mis-match" in these circumstances
> between a (void *) and a CK_OFF_T.
> 
> CK_OFF_T is specced as a type big enough to hold a _file_ offset, and
> since it's being compiled with _LARGEFILESOURCE this is a 64-bit qty.
> _APPARENTLY_, the compilation options only use a 32-bit _program_ address-
> space, thus generating the mis-match.
> 
> FIX:
>  ckuusx.c -- change the last parameter of debug() from "" to 0 on all 3 lines.

Done, and working thanks!

> 
>  ck_ssl.c -- no obvious foolproof fix here.  Explicitly casting the last
>        param of the macro to an 32-bit qty -- e.g. "debug(..((int32)ctx))"
>        should work, as long as there is a defined 'int32' type.  
>        `
>        [ I'm assuming that sooner or later somebody _will_ try to compile    ]
>        [ C-Kermit on a machine with 32-bit pointers, but only 16-bit ints.   ]
>        [ If one decides that it is 'safe' to ignore that case, then a simple ]
>        [ ((int)ctx) would work.                                              ]
> 
> 

Arthur.

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Hi: Can you tell me where find Kermit for Red Hat ? Thanks.

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contracer11@gmail.com wrote, on 01/07/08 03:35:
> Hi: Can you tell me where find Kermit for Red Hat ? Thanks.

There is a pre-compiled binary for FC7:

ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/cku211.linux-i386-fc7

but you may wish to download:

ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz

unpack it and:

make linux

or make one of the other linux-based targets

Arthur.

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On 30 jun, 17:38, Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> contrace...@gmail.com wrote, on 01/07/08 03:35:
>
> > Hi: Can you tell me where find Kermit for Red Hat ? Thanks.
>
> There is a pre-compiled binary for FC7:
>
> ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/cku211.linux-i386-fc7
>
> but you may wish to download:
>
> ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz
>
> unpack it and:
>
> make linux
>
> or make one of the other linux-based targets
>
> Arthur.

These address doesn=B4t work for me...

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contracer11@gmail.com wrote, on 2008-07-01 10:03:
> On 30 jun, 17:38, Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> contrace...@gmail.com wrote, on 01/07/08 03:35:
>>
>>> Hi: Can you tell me where find Kermit for Red Hat ? Thanks.
>> There is a pre-compiled binary for FC7:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/cku211.linux-i386-fc7
>>
>> but you may wish to download:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz
>>
>> unpack it and:
>>
>> make linux
>>
>> or make one of the other linux-based targets
>>
>> Arthur.
> 
> These address doesn´t work for me...

Try:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/bin/cku211.linux-i386-fc7

or

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/bin/cku211.linux-i386-rh4.0es

and

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/test/tar/x.tar.gz

for source code

(found from http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/ and 
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit )

Arthur.

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Hi,
I succeed to use my gsm PC-card using kermit interactively with AT
commands,
but actually I need to send SMS automatically.
 Here is the script I have executed :


#/usr/bin/kermit
set line /dev/ttyS2
set speed 19200
set carrier-watch off
OUTPUT AT


The output is :
./premier_k: line 5: OUTPUT : commande introuvable

 "commande introuvable" means unknown command or more precisely
command that cannot be found .

 Do you have an idea ?
 Thanks a lot,
  Cedric

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On Jul 18, 1:49=A0pm, cedric <cedric_li...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> I succeed to use my gsm PC-card using kermit interactively with AT
> commands,
> but actually I need to send SMS automatically.
> =A0Here is the script I have executed :
>
> #/usr/bin/kermit
> set line /dev/ttyS2
> set speed 19200
> set carrier-watch off
> OUTPUT AT
>
> The output is :
> ./premier_k: line 5: OUTPUT : commande introuvable
>
> =A0"commande introuvable" means unknown command or more precisely
> command that cannot be found .


You need to refer to the documentation for your GSM PC card to
determine what commands need to be sent to it to do what you want.
Then you can script those commands in Kermit. If you need help with
Kermit scripts, see <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html>.

--
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San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
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On 2008-07-18, cedric <cedric_libre@yahoo.fr> wrote:
: I succeed to use my gsm PC-card using kermit interactively with AT
: commands, but actually I need to send SMS automatically.
: Here is the script I have executed :
:
: #/usr/bin/kermit
: set line /dev/ttyS2
: set speed 19200
: set carrier-watch off
: OUTPUT AT
:
: The output is :
: ./premier_k: line 5: OUTPUT : commande introuvable
:
What version of Kermit do you have?  The OUTPUT command has been part of
Kermit for... well, forever.  Furthermore "commande introuvable" is not
a message from Kermit.  My guess is that the shell is executing this script,
not Kermit.  You need to put a '!' after the '#' in the first line:

  #!/usr/bin/kermit

and you need to give the script file execute permission.

Furthermore, when you send commands to the modem, you have to terminate
them with a carriage return:

 OUTPUT AT\13

As mark suggested, see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html

- Frank

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From: Rob S <robatworkDeleteTheseFourWords@mail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Kermit sending problem
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:15:03 +0100
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Any ideas on the following error message:

SEND-class command failed.
 Packets sent: 0
 Retransmissions: 0
 Timeouts: 0
 Damaged packets: 0
 Transfer canceled by receiver.
 Receiver's message: "Write access denied"
 Most recent local OS error: "Invalid argument"	

I am connecting via tcpip across the internet. I can do a rem dir of the remote
PC, and Get files OK. I only get an error when sending. I can rem cd to a
different drive entirely (a memory stick) and still get the error. I disabled
the antivir on the remote PC. The above happens no matter what file I send or
what dir I am in, and ROBUST doesn't help at all. 

thanks
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

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On Sep 5, 5:15=A0am, Rob S <robatworkDeleteTheseFourWo...@mail.com>
wrote:
> Any ideas on the following error message:
>
> SEND-class command failed.
> =A0Packets sent: 0
> =A0Retransmissions: 0
> =A0Timeouts: 0
> =A0Damaged packets: 0
> =A0Transfer canceled by receiver.
> =A0Receiver's message: "Write access denied"


The above message is the problem.


> =A0Most recent local OS error: "Invalid argument" =A0 =A0 =A0
>
> I am connecting via tcpip across the internet. I can do a rem dir of the =
remote
> PC, and Get files OK. I only get an error when sending. I can rem cd to a
> different drive entirely (a memory stick) and still get the error. I disa=
bled
> the antivir on the remote PC. The above happens no matter what file I sen=
d or
> what dir I am in, and ROBUST doesn't help at all.


What is the Kermit on the receiving PC?

How are you connecting to it? I.e., do you log in to the remote PC and
start Kermit? Do you connect to a running Kermit via "set host"? Do
you rely on the protocol to start the remote Kermit?

Depending on the Kermit and its settings, it may always try to store
received files in a particular directory which may not be the current
directory.

--
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Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:42:23 -0700 (PDT), Mark Sapiro
<slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

-
-
-What is the Kermit on the receiving PC?
-
-How are you connecting to it? I.e., do you log in to the remote PC and
-start Kermit? Do you connect to a running Kermit via "set host"? Do
-you rely on the protocol to start the remote Kermit?
-
-Depending on the Kermit and its settings, it may always try to store
-received files in a particular directory which may not be the current
-directory.

This turned out to be something very peculiar in windows on the host. If I moved
the kermit folder from C:\aaa\kermit to C:\kermit it all worked fine. Putting it
back in aaa and it failed. The workaround was (I was starting kermit from a
shortcut to a  batch file in the form kermit cmdfile,) to start the "normal"
batch file from another batch file with another shortcut. Note the normal batch
file works on other PCs OK.

I spent a couple of hours on it and didn't have more time to spend, but my guess
is some underlying problem on the pc's windows installation and the way it
handled the DOS 16 bit subsystem. I am sure a reload of windows would have fixed
it, but that wasn't a practical option in this case...

thanks for the suggestions
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

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From: alexander <awgabis@juno.com>
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Howdy:  I'm contemplating the purchase of a notebook computer that
runs some version of Linux. Possibly Linpus. The task at hand is to
set up a cable connection between the notebook and my desktop PC,
which is running Windows XP, over which I can simply and easily
transfer files (mostly text, but perhaps binary as well) on a fairly
regular basis -- every other day or so.

Questions:
1) Are there versions of Kermit available (say, like, on the Columbia
U. site http://www.columbia.edu/kermit) that support this operation?

1a) If there is a ver that works under Linux (or one of its
manifestations), would it be necessary to recompile it from source on
my particular system?

2) What sort of cabling would I need to do this? I know nothing about
USB connections at all -- whether they even support this sort of
application. I probably will not have an RS-232 serial port on the
notebook, but I understand that there exist adapters that will connect
USB to an RS-232 wire. Would such a contraption mess up the kermit
operation?

3) Does anyone know about file format compatibility issues between
Linux and Windows? Do I have to worry about whether, say, a text file
or an RTF file created on the Linux side would even be readable/system-
compatible with the Windows XP OS?  In particular, compatible  with
the Windows file system -- NTFS style. One would hope that the Kermits
on each end would somehow handle this transparently.

thanks
Alex





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On Sep 11, 12:39=A0pm, alexander <awga...@juno.com> wrote:
> Howdy: =A0I'm contemplating the purchase of a notebook computer that
> runs some version of Linux. Possibly Linpus. The task at hand is to
> set up a cable connection between the notebook and my desktop PC,
> which is running Windows XP, over which I can simply and easily
> transfer files (mostly text, but perhaps binary as well) on a fairly
> regular basis -- every other day or so.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Are there versions of Kermit available (say, like, on the Columbia
> U. sitehttp://www.columbia.edu/kermit) that support this operation?


Yes. You want Kermit-95 <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html> on
the Windows XP box and C-Kermit <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
ck80.html> on the Linux box.


> 1a) If there is a ver that works under Linux (or one of its
> manifestations), would it be necessary to recompile it from source on
> my particular system?


There are many pre-built C-Kermit binaries at <http://www.columbia.edu/
kermit/ck80binaries.html#linux>. One of these may be suitable for your
hardware/OS platform, but if not, Kermit is fairly straightforward to
make from source <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html#download>.


> 2) What sort of cabling would I need to do this? I know nothing about
> USB connections at all -- whether they even support this sort of
> application. I probably will not have an RS-232 serial port on the
> notebook, but I understand that there exist adapters that will connect
> USB to an RS-232 wire. Would such a contraption mess up the kermit
> operation?


There are a few ways to approach this. The old way was to connect two
computers via RS-232C ports using a null modem cable <http://
www.columbia.edu/kermit/cable.html>. And yes, there are USB to RS-232
adapters that would work. In this setup, each computer sees the other
as a modem.

The more modern way is to use ethernet connections via a router or the
internet itself. Even if you have to purchase a router to implement
this, the increased speed is probably worth it.


> 3) Does anyone know about file format compatibility issues between
> Linux and Windows? Do I have to worry about whether, say, a text file
> or an RTF file created on the Linux side would even be readable/system-
> compatible with the Windows XP OS? =A0In particular, compatible =A0with
> the Windows file system -- NTFS style. One would hope that the Kermits
> on each end would somehow handle this transparently.


Yes, the Kermits are very good about this - one of the major
advantages of using Kermit over other methods.

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator

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alexander <awgabis@juno.com> wrote:

> 1) Are there versions of Kermit available (say, like, on the Columbia
> U. site http://www.columbia.edu/kermit) that support this operation?

You can just install gkermit on the Linux machine, and a kermit capable 
terminal emulator on the Microsoft Windows machine. (I think TeraTerm, 
PuTTY, or Reflections would suit this.)

> 1a) If there is a ver that works under Linux (or one of its
> manifestations), would it be necessary to recompile it from source on
> my particular system?

gkermit is available on most Linux boxes. There is not problem here.
 
> 2) What sort of cabling would I need to do this?

You could just use a crossover network cable, if there is no RS232 port 
on the machine.

> 3) Does anyone know about file format compatibility issues between
> Linux and Windows?

Files created in Microsoft Windows may have CRLF line ends, whereas on 
Linux based systems, they have just LF line ends.

There is an ambiguity in the RTF standard, which means that RTF files 
created on Microsoft Windows may not be readable on GNU/Linux based 
systems, even though the files are to the standards stated.

> One would hope that the Kermits on each end would somehow handle this 
transparently.

Line ending can sometimes be manipulated by the terminal emulator, 
though translation of RTF files would not be transparent.

I normally just convert received text files to the appropriate format.

I stopped using RTF, due to compatiblity problems with this format, and 
the open source editor not being as mature as Atlantis Nova, which was 
the RTF editor of choice on Microsoft Windows based systems.

I now use Abiword on both Microsoft Windows and on GNU/Linux, and this 
has made documents more portable between platforms, that the RTF 
documents.

You could however run Atlantis Nova in Wine, if you wanted to continue 
using the RTF format.

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

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From: alexander <awgabis@juno.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: File transfer from Linux to Win XP over USB - basic questions
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On Sep 12, 2:50=A0pm, markhob...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark
Hobley) wrote:
> alexander <awga...@juno.com> wrote:
> > 1) Are there versions of Kermit available (say, like, on the Columbia
> > U. sitehttp://www.columbia.edu/kermit) that support this operation?
>
> You can just install gkermit on the Linux machine, and a kermit capable
> terminal emulator on the Microsoft Windows machine. (I think TeraTerm,
> PuTTY, or Reflections would suit this.)
>
> > 1a) If there is a ver that works under Linux (or one of its
> > manifestations), would it be necessary to recompile it from source on
> > my particular system?
>

... [snip]  ...

Very helpful.  Thanks so much to both Marks!

best
Alex


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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Kermit sending problem
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On 2008-09-09, Rob S <robatworkDeleteTheseFourWords@mail.com> wrote:
: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:42:23 -0700 (PDT), Mark Sapiro
:<slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: -What is the Kermit on the receiving PC?
:
You didn't answer this question.

: This turned out to be something very peculiar in windows on the host. If I
: moved the kermit folder from C:\aaa\kermit to C:\kermit it all worked
: fine. Putting it back in aaa and it failed. The workaround was (I was
: starting kermit from a shortcut to a batch file in the form kermit cmdfile,)
: to start the "normal" batch file from another batch file with another
: shortcut. Note the normal batch file works on other PCs OK.
:
: I spent a couple of hours on it and didn't have more time to spend, but my
: guess is some underlying problem on the pc's windows installation and the
: way it handled the DOS 16 bit subsystem. I am sure a reload of windows would
: have fixed it, but that wasn't a practical option in this case...
:
When you say "DOS 16 bit subsystem" that leads me to suspect that you are
using MS-DOS Kermit on the Windows end.  See:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/msk95.html

..or that you are using Kermit 95 (as you should be) but are under the
mistaken impression that it is a DOS program.  Here is the Kermit 95 page:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

In any case, I would suspect the problem is the permissions on the
different directories on that PC, but you didn't mention which Windows OS
you have.

- Frank

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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: File transfer from Linux to Win XP over USB - basic questions
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On 2008-09-12, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
: alexander <awgabis@juno.com> wrote:
:
:> 1) Are there versions of Kermit available (say, like, on the Columbia
:> U. site http://www.columbia.edu/kermit) that support this operation?
:
: You can just install gkermit on the Linux machine, and a kermit capable 
: terminal emulator on the Microsoft Windows machine. (I think TeraTerm, 
: PuTTY, or Reflections would suit this.)
:
Last time I looked, PuTTY did not include Kermit protocol.  Teraterm did but
it was not a very good implementation.  I believe Reflections supports
Kermit protocol, but it's very expensive.

There is really no reason to use G-Kermit on Linux instead of C-Kermit.
G-Kermit is a bare-bones minimal Kermit protocol implementation that was
produced to satisfy the demands of license purists.  C-Kermit is generally
faster and it does more, and anybody who wants to use it can download it
for free and use it all they want to (they just can't turn around and
sell it to somebody else).

:> 1a) If there is a ver that works under Linux (or one of its
:> manifestations), would it be necessary to recompile it from source on
:> my particular system?
:
: gkermit is available on most Linux boxes. There is not problem here.
:  
C-Kermit is available for all Linux boxes, as Mark S said.  At the present
moment the best place to get it is here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckdaily.html

The version you'll find here has a few updates that might be necessary for
certain Linux distributions.

In any case, for best results with file transfer, if you are going to be using
Kermit protocol, you should use real Kermit software on each end of the
connection because it works better and it's supported.  The Kermit software
for Windows is Kermit 95:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

:> 2) What sort of cabling would I need to do this?
:
: You could just use a crossover network cable, if there is no RS232 port 
: on the machine.
:
About serial-port cables, see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cable.html

:> 3) Does anyone know about file format compatibility issues between
:> Linux and Windows?
:
: Files created in Microsoft Windows may have CRLF line ends, whereas on 
: Linux based systems, they have just LF line ends.
:
Kermit 95 and C-Kermit can be used together to transfer files between
Linux and Windows (and most any other pair of platforms) without the user
having to be concerned with these issues, or having to worry about the
difference between text and binary files.  All necessary conversions are
done automatically.

: There is an ambiguity in the RTF standard, which means that RTF files 
: created on Microsoft Windows may not be readable on GNU/Linux based 
: systems, even though the files are to the standards stated.
:
:> One would hope that the Kermits on each end would somehow handle this 
:> transparently.
:
As far as Kermit is concerned, RTF files are text files.  Kermit does not
convert application-specific formats between applications or platforms;
neither does any other file-transfer program that I know of.  It can, however,
(and does) convert between text-file record formats and text-file character
encodings (e.g. Windows code pages, ISO 8859, UTF8, etc).

- Frank

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Subject: Re: File transfer from Linux to Win XP over USB - basic questions
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Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:

> (they just can't turn around and sell it to somebody else).

The licence is also prevents free distribution of a modified versions, 
and requires modifications to be sent to the C-kermit team.

The gkermit version is open source, and does not have these 
restrictions.

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: File transfer from Linux to Win XP over USB - basic questions
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On 2008-09-25, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> (they just can't turn around and sell it to somebody else).
:
: The licence is also prevents free distribution of a modified versions, 
: and requires modifications to be sent to the C-kermit team.
:
And why wouldn't you want to have one single set of consistent, supportable
source code, instead of a multiple of forks and branches that are all
different?  Support requests for Kermit come here, but if they are about
a modified version that we haven't even seen, how can we support it?

We've been developing and supporting C-Kermit since 1985, and all fixes are
gratefully accepted.  If you make a fix but you don't send it in, then the
next release of C-Kermit won't have the fix you'll either be stuck with the
old version, or you'll have to put the fix in again.

- Frank

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Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:

> (they just can't turn around and sell it to somebody else).

The licence is also prevents free distribution of a modified versions, 
and requires modifications to be sent to the C-kermit team.

The gkermit version is open source, and does not have these 
restrictions.

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

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On 2008-09-25, Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> (they just can't turn around and sell it to somebody else).
:
: The licence is also prevents free distribution of a modified versions, 
: and requires modifications to be sent to the C-kermit team.
:
And why wouldn't you want to have one single set of consistent, supportable
source code, instead of a multiple of forks and branches that are all
different?  Support requests for Kermit come here, but if they are about
a modified version that we haven't even seen, how can we support it?

We've been developing and supporting C-Kermit since 1985, and all fixes are
gratefully accepted.  If you make a fix but you don't send it in, then the
next release of C-Kermit won't have the fix you'll either be stuck with the
old version, or you'll have to put the fix in again.

- Frank

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Subject: Re: File transfer from Linux to Win XP over USB - basic questions
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Why use kermit to do this in the first place?

Buy an ethernet hub or something, and use ftp.

el

alexander wrote:
> Howdy:  I'm contemplating the purchase of a notebook computer that
> runs some version of Linux. Possibly Linpus. The task at hand is to
> set up a cable connection between the notebook and my desktop PC,
> which is running Windows XP, over which I can simply and easily
> transfer files (mostly text, but perhaps binary as well) on a fairly
> regular basis -- every other day or so.
[...]

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In article <dferp6-dad.ln1@news.online.de>,
Christian Corti  <cc@corti-net.de> wrote:
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
>> P.S. This is coming to you from K95 2.1.3 on Windows 7, in case you were
>> wondering if this combination worked.
>
>Really?

Yup. _Really_.
>
>[...]
>> NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:25:24 +0000 (UTC)
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>[...]

He's using K95 on a windows box to initiate a _terminal_session_ (i.e. 
'connect' mode) to the panix.com shell server box, which where he is
running the newsreader program 'slrn' from the NetBSD command-line.

You've just re-proven the validity of the classical description of USENET,
to wit:  "open mouth, insert foot.  echo internationally."

<grin>




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Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> He's using K95 on a windows box to initiate a _terminal_session_ (i.e. 
> 'connect' mode) to the panix.com shell server box, which where he is
> running the newsreader program 'slrn' from the NetBSD command-line.

Ok, just wanted to be sure ;-))
(BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)

Christian

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:20 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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On 2009-10-27, Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@...uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: (BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
: self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)
:
Did you ever send it in?

: Christian

- Frank

From Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Nov 20 17:06:26 2009
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From: Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2009-10-27, Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@...uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> : (BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
> : self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)
> Did you ever send it in?

Well, ehm, not yet ;-) But I will; I have to clean up the sources a bit and
write a manual.

Christian

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Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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On Sep 27, 11:10=A0am, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> how is \v(desktop) initialized?

The value isn't initialized.  It is queried each time \v(desktop) is
evaluated.  The source of the value is:

HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell
Folders
"Desktop"

If the value is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ, then the result is expanded
using ExpandEnvironmentStrings().

Finally, a '/ is appended to the end of the string and all '\'
characters are converted to '/'.

Its not magic.  Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
exactly what it does.

Jeffrey Altman

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On Oct 27, 6:44=A0am, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its not magic. =A0Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
> exactly what it does.


I didn't know I had access to any K95 sources. Where might I find
them?

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:37 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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On 2009-10-29, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: On Oct 27, 6:44 am, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> Its not magic.  Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
:> exactly what it does.
:
: I didn't know I had access to any K95 sources. Where might I find
: them?
:
Well, not all the sources, but the modules it has in common with
C-Kermit, which are most of the modules.

Likewise, most of the code in these modules (ck[cuw_]*.[cwh]) is
common code.  K95-specific code is #ifdef'd OS2 or NT.

OS2???  K95 begin its life as the OS/2 version of C-Kermit, before
Windows 95 came out.  When Win95 appeared, it shared many of the
OS/2 APIs; thus the #ifdef OS2 sections served, in large part, for
Win-32 as well.  The latest version of K95, 2.1.3, is available
for both Windows and (if you can find it) OS/2.  The OS/2 binary
is separate; compatibily goes only so far.  The Windows binary, on
the other hand, runs on every Windows version from Windows 95
through Windows 7, excluding mini versions of Windows like Pocket
PC and Windows Mobile.

To answer your question, the source for GetDesktop(), which
is used to evaluate \v(desktop), is not in the public modules but,
as Jeff says it's a Registry query plus some string-munching.

\v(desktop) is one of a group of variables that can be used to
refer to special Windows directories in a uniform way, regardless
of Windows version and language.  These include \v(appdata),
\v(exedir), \v(inidir), \v(startup), \v(tmpdir), \v(common),
\v(download), \v(home), \v(personal), and \v(textdir).

Of these, only \v(download) has stopped working in recent Windows
version, as noted in:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95faq.html

where a workaround is also given.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:45 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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It's been a while since new C-Kermit code has seen the light 
of day in our "daily builds" area but now, against all odds,
C-Kermit 9.0 is ready for testing.  Here's the web page that
describes it:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

The biggest change is adaptation to 64-bit platforms, and to
64-bit APIs on 32-bit platforms that have them, for transferring
"large file" and to be able to use big numbers in arithmetic,
have larger buffers, etc.  Tons of smaller improvements, fixes,
and speedups are listed in the URL.

A lot of platforms that I once had access to for development and
testing have vanished.  I especially miss the HP Testdrive site,
which was terrific (it had every conceivable OS running on every
HP hardware platform -- i386, alpha, ia64, parisc...).  When it
was shut down, I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
(telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
that have C compilers.

- Frank

From helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de Fri Nov 20 17:06:58 2009
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From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
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In article <slrnhgd7p1.6r9.fdc@panix2.panix.com>, Frank da Cruz
<fdc@panix.com> writes: 

> A lot of platforms that I once had access to for development and
> testing have vanished.  I especially miss the HP Testdrive site,
> which was terrific (it had every conceivable OS running on every
> HP hardware platform -- i386, alpha, ia64, parisc...).  When it
> was shut down, I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> that have C compilers.

I've never used Kermit, but I appreciate your effort.  If you need a 
test account, let me know.  I have both VAX and ALPHA running, both with 
C compilers.  (Compilers---and OS on Alpha for that matter---are not 
completely up-to-date, but I plan to upgrade VMS on ALPHA and my 
compilers on ALPHA (maybe VAX as well if a) there is anything new and b) 
I can get some media) sometime within the next few months).)

How hardware-specific is Kermit?


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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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On 2009-11-20, Phillip Helbig <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
: I've never used Kermit, but I appreciate your effort.  If you need a 
: test account, let me know.  I have both VAX and ALPHA running, both with 
: C compilers.  (Compilers---and OS on Alpha for that matter---are not 
: completely up-to-date, but I plan to upgrade VMS on ALPHA and my 
: compilers on ALPHA (maybe VAX as well if a) there is anything new and b) 
: I can get some media) sometime within the next few months).)
:
I would like to have access to anything at all.  Obviously it is important
to support the latest releases on the latest hardware, but it is also
important to keep supporting older VMS releases, older hardware, older
C compilers, and older TCP/IP stacks.

: How hardware-specific is Kermit?
:
I would like to think: Not At All!

- Frank

From brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam Fri Nov 20 17:07:25 2009
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From: brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> writes:
> . . .  I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> that have C compilers.

eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.

-- 

Rob Brooks    MSL -- Marlborough, MA		brooks!cuebid.usa.hp.com

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From: gartmann@nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann)
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In article <mPxREwnJ2j8r@cuebid.usa.hp.com>, brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) writes:
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> writes:
>> . . .  I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
>> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
>> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
>> that have C compilers.
>
>eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
>It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.

The deathrow cluster (http://deathrow.vistech.net/) would be an option as well.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

-- 
 Max-Planck-Institut fuer      Phone   : +49-761-5108-464   Fax: -80464
 Immunbiologie
 Postfach 1169                 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de
 D-79011  Freiburg, Germany
               http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html

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On 20 Nov, 14:12, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com

VAX and Alpha are available on Deathrow http://deathrow.vistech.net/

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On Nov 20, 6:12=A0am, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com

For VAX you might try a SIMH emulator with a hobbyest license (which
includes compilers).


Sean

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On 20 Nov, 14:12, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com


See also deathrow.vistech.net for a alpha and a VAX

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> [...]
>   http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
> [...]

   There are a few more things to look into, but for a start:

ALP $ gdiff -u ckuusy.c_orig ckuusy.c
--- ckuusy.c_orig       2009-11-18 16:16:07 -0600
+++ ckuusy.c    2009-11-20 10:26:12 -0600
@@ -3606,8 +3606,8 @@
                      failmsg = "%CKERMIT-E-SEARCHFAIL, no files for -
s";
 #else
                      failmsg = "No files for -s";
-                 }
 #endif /* VMS */
+                 }
                  XFATAL(failmsg);
              }
              if (z > 1) {
@@ -4742,8 +4742,3 @@
     }
 }
 #endif /* NOCMDL */
-
-#ifdef VMS
-/* This is the most horrible hack ever */
-}
-#endif /* VMS */


(Well if it wasn't, it certainly was in the running.)


  I can't remember if these are old or new (or fixed before or
not):

    Compiling ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20]CKUATH.C

#define des_cblock DES_cblock
...................^
%CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_cblock" conflicts
with a cu
rrent definition because the replacement lists differ.  The
redefinition is now
in effect.
at line number 131 in file SSL$ROOT:[INCLUDE]DES_OLD.H;1

#define des_key_schedule DES_key_schedule
.........................^
%CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_key_schedule"
conflicts wit
h a current definition because the replacement lists differ.  The
redefinition i
s now in effect.
at line number 133 in file SSL$ROOT:[INCLUDE]DES_OLD.H;1


I'll try to look at it when I get a chance.

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:07:46 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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On 2009-11-20, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:    There are a few more things to look into, but for a start:
:
: ALP $ gdiff -u ckuusy.c_orig ckuusy.c
:
Thanks, I was staring right at that spot without seeing it.  I should
have put on my special #ifdef glasses...

:  #endif /* NOCMDL */
: -
: -#ifdef VMS
: -/* This is the most horrible hack ever */
: -}
: -#endif /* VMS */
:
: (Well if it wasn't, it certainly was in the running.)
:
In the edit history I mentioned the "old LISP trick", I don't know if
anybody still remembers it but if your LISP program didn't "compile",
you put a card full of right parens at the end and it fed it through
the reader again.

: I can't remember if these are old or new (or fixed before or not):
:
: #define des_cblock DES_cblock
: ...................^
: %CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_cblock" conflicts
: with a current definition because the replacement lists differ...
:
I'm not sure why this is even being picked up unless a secure build
is being attempted.  In that case, there are some things to be aware
of.  First, OpenSSL changed the names of the DES routines between
0.9.6 and 0.9.7; it might be necessary to add -DOPENSSL_097 to the
CC flags.  Second (probably not relevant in this case), OS vendors are
starting to remove DES encryption from all their products.

: I'll try to look at it when I get a chance.
:
Thanks.  I didn't even have an opportunity to try a VMS build until
yesterday.  When I finally got it to compile at the last minute I tried an
FTP command but got the external FTP rather than the built-in one, even
though your code is there.  I must have missed a command-line option in 
the build.

- Frank

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On Nov 20, 5:52=A0am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> It's been a while since new C-Kermit code has seen the light
> of day in our "daily builds" area but now, against all odds,
> C-Kermit 9.0 is ready for testing. =A0Here's the web page that
> describes it:
>
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html


It makes cleanly on CentOS 5 with "make linux" and seems to work fine.

On
fog:$ uname -a
HP-UX fog B.11.23 U ia64 1361301988 unlimited-user license

with
fog:$ cc --version
cc: HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.15 [May 16 2007]

make hpux1100o+ KFLAGS=3D-DCK_INI_B

issues several compile warnings listed below. These did not occur when
I originally made

C-Kermit 8.0.212 Dev.26, 20 Dec 2006, for HP-UX 11.00

but that was apparently with a less fussy compiler. I just remade that
source on the above box/compiler, and with the exception of three of
the "function was declared but never referenced" warnings, I got all
the below and several others. Interestingly, the HP-UX binaries made
by this compiler and its libraries are about twice the size of the one
I made in Jan, 2007.


"ckuusr.c", line 7486: warning #2177-D: label "havehost" was declared
but
          never referenced
        havehost:                       /* Come here with s -> host */
        ^

"ckuus4.c", line 6951: warning #4277-D: logical AND with a constant,
do you
          mean to use '&'?
            if (flags && INPSW_COU) {   /* INPUT /COUNT */
                      ^

"ckuus6.c", line 628: warning #2177-D: function "doymdir" was declared
but
          never referenced
  _PROTOTYP(static int doymdir,(int));
                       ^

"ckuus7.c", line 9807: warning #2177-D: label "xcx_net" was declared
but never
          referenced
    xcx_net:
    ^

"ckuus7.c", line 10098: warning #2177-D: label "xcx_serial" was
declared but
          never referenced
    xcx_serial:
    ^

"ckcfns.c", line 2498: warning #2940-D: missing return statement at
end of
          non-void function "xgnbyte"
  }
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 2334: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "char *ctermid(char *)" (declared at line 522 of
          "/usr/include/stdio.h") is ignored after this unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern char *ctermid();           /* Wish they all had this! */
                   ^

"ckutio.c", line 11836: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "char *asctime(const struct tm *)" (declared at line 256 of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      char *asctime();
            ^

"ckutio.c", line 11837: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct tm *localtime();
                 ^

"ckutio.c", line 14476: warning #2177-D: function "sigchld_handler"
was
          declared but never referenced
  sigchld_handler(sig) int sig; {
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 12099: warning #2177-D: function "congetbuf" was
declared but
          never referenced
  congetbuf(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 14351: warning #2177-D: function "pty_chk" was
declared but
          never referenced
  pty_chk(fd) int fd; {
  ^

"ckufio.c", line 2641: warning #2177-D: label "doaccess" was declared
but
          never referenced
    doaccess:
    ^

"ckufio.c", line 4655: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct tm * localtime();
                  ^

"ckufio.c", line 4809: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern struct tm * localtime();
                         ^

"ckufio.c", line 5093: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern struct tm * localtime();
                         ^

"ckufio.c", line 5312: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "int utime(const char *, const struct utimbuf *)" (declared
at line
          34 of "/usr/include/utime.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern int utime();
                 ^

"ckufio.c", line 6088: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "DIR *opendir(const char *)" (declared at line 187 of
          "/usr/include/sys/dirent.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      DIR *fd, *opendir();
                ^

"ckufio.c", line 6090: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct dirent *readdir(DIR *)" (declared at line 188 of
          "/usr/include/sys/dirent.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct dirent *readdir();
                     ^

"ckudia.c", line 4996: warning #2236-D: controlling expression is
constant
           if (lbuf && *lbuf) {
               ^

"ckcnet.c", line 3442: warning #4232-D: conversion from "struct
sockaddr *" to
          a more strictly aligned type "struct sockaddr_in *" may
cause
          misaligned access
              sin =3D (struct sockaddr_in *) &dns_addrs[0];
                    ^

"ckcnet.c", line 7407: warning #2068-D: integer conversion resulted in
a
          change of sign
          cp[2] =3D '\377';
                  ^

"ckcnet.c", line 7408: warning #2068-D: integer conversion resulted in
a
          change of sign
          cp[3] =3D '\377';
                  ^

"ckcnet.c", line 13511: warning #4232-D: conversion from "struct
sockaddr *"
          to a more strictly aligned type "struct sockaddr_in *" may
cause
          misaligned access
                      sin =3D (struct sockaddr_in *) &addr[nout++];
                            ^

"ckcftp.c", line 15599: warning #2177-D: label "notemp" was declared
but never
          referenced
        notemp:
        ^

"ckcftp.c", line 14512: warning #2177-D: function "fts_cpl" was
declared but
          never referenced
  fts_cpl(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 14472: warning #2177-D: function "fts_dpl" was
declared but
          never referenced
  fts_dpl(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 2000: warning #2177-D: function "xprintc" was
declared but
          never referenced
  xprintc(char c)
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 2010: warning #2177-D: function "bytswap" was
declared but
          never referenced
  bytswap(c0,c1) int * c0, * c1; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 8590: warning #2177-D: function "shopl" was declared
but
          never referenced
  shopl(x) int x; {
  ^

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator


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In article <dferp6-dad.ln1@news.online.de>,
Christian Corti  <cc@corti-net.de> wrote:
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
>> P.S. This is coming to you from K95 2.1.3 on Windows 7, in case you were
>> wondering if this combination worked.
>
>Really?

Yup. _Really_.
>
>[...]
>> NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:25:24 +0000 (UTC)
>> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (NetBSD)
>[...]

He's using K95 on a windows box to initiate a _terminal_session_ (i.e. 
'connect' mode) to the panix.com shell server box, which where he is
running the newsreader program 'slrn' from the NetBSD command-line.

You've just re-proven the validity of the classical description of USENET,
to wit:  "open mouth, insert foot.  echo internationally."

<grin>




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Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> He's using K95 on a windows box to initiate a _terminal_session_ (i.e. 
> 'connect' mode) to the panix.com shell server box, which where he is
> running the newsreader program 'slrn' from the NetBSD command-line.

Ok, just wanted to be sure ;-))
(BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)

Christian

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:20 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:49:24 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-10-27, Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@...uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: (BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
: self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)
:
Did you ever send it in?

: Christian

- Frank

From Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Nov 20 17:06:26 2009
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From: Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2009-10-27, Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@...uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> : (BTW I know what a terminal session is... I could do the same with my
> : self-written Kermit for the IBM 5110)
> Did you ever send it in?

Well, ehm, not yet ;-) But I will; I have to clean up the sources a bit and
write a manual.

Christian

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
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On Sep 27, 11:10=A0am, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> how is \v(desktop) initialized?

The value isn't initialized.  It is queried each time \v(desktop) is
evaluated.  The source of the value is:

HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell
Folders
"Desktop"

If the value is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ, then the result is expanded
using ExpandEnvironmentStrings().

Finally, a '/ is appended to the end of the string and all '\'
characters are converted to '/'.

Its not magic.  Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
exactly what it does.

Jeffrey Altman

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On Oct 27, 6:44=A0am, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its not magic. =A0Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
> exactly what it does.


I didn't know I had access to any K95 sources. Where might I find
them?

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:37 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How does Kermit 95 initialize \v(desktop)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:47:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-10-29, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: On Oct 27, 6:44 am, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> Its not magic.  Its C code. Look at the sources and you can see
:> exactly what it does.
:
: I didn't know I had access to any K95 sources. Where might I find
: them?
:
Well, not all the sources, but the modules it has in common with
C-Kermit, which are most of the modules.

Likewise, most of the code in these modules (ck[cuw_]*.[cwh]) is
common code.  K95-specific code is #ifdef'd OS2 or NT.

OS2???  K95 begin its life as the OS/2 version of C-Kermit, before
Windows 95 came out.  When Win95 appeared, it shared many of the
OS/2 APIs; thus the #ifdef OS2 sections served, in large part, for
Win-32 as well.  The latest version of K95, 2.1.3, is available
for both Windows and (if you can find it) OS/2.  The OS/2 binary
is separate; compatibily goes only so far.  The Windows binary, on
the other hand, runs on every Windows version from Windows 95
through Windows 7, excluding mini versions of Windows like Pocket
PC and Windows Mobile.

To answer your question, the source for GetDesktop(), which
is used to evaluate \v(desktop), is not in the public modules but,
as Jeff says it's a Registry query plus some string-munching.

\v(desktop) is one of a group of variables that can be used to
refer to special Windows directories in a uniform way, regardless
of Windows version and language.  These include \v(appdata),
\v(exedir), \v(inidir), \v(startup), \v(tmpdir), \v(common),
\v(download), \v(home), \v(personal), and \v(textdir).

Of these, only \v(download) has stopped working in recent Windows
version, as noted in:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95faq.html

where a workaround is also given.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:06:45 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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It's been a while since new C-Kermit code has seen the light 
of day in our "daily builds" area but now, against all odds,
C-Kermit 9.0 is ready for testing.  Here's the web page that
describes it:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

The biggest change is adaptation to 64-bit platforms, and to
64-bit APIs on 32-bit platforms that have them, for transferring
"large file" and to be able to use big numbers in arithmetic,
have larger buffers, etc.  Tons of smaller improvements, fixes,
and speedups are listed in the URL.

A lot of platforms that I once had access to for development and
testing have vanished.  I especially miss the HP Testdrive site,
which was terrific (it had every conceivable OS running on every
HP hardware platform -- i386, alpha, ia64, parisc...).  When it
was shut down, I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
(telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
that have C compilers.

- Frank

From helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de Fri Nov 20 17:06:58 2009
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From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
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Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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In article <slrnhgd7p1.6r9.fdc@panix2.panix.com>, Frank da Cruz
<fdc@panix.com> writes: 

> A lot of platforms that I once had access to for development and
> testing have vanished.  I especially miss the HP Testdrive site,
> which was terrific (it had every conceivable OS running on every
> HP hardware platform -- i386, alpha, ia64, parisc...).  When it
> was shut down, I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> that have C compilers.

I've never used Kermit, but I appreciate your effort.  If you need a 
test account, let me know.  I have both VAX and ALPHA running, both with 
C compilers.  (Compilers---and OS on Alpha for that matter---are not 
completely up-to-date, but I plan to upgrade VMS on ALPHA and my 
compilers on ALPHA (maybe VAX as well if a) there is anything new and b) 
I can get some media) sometime within the next few months).)

How hardware-specific is Kermit?


From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:07:10 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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On 2009-11-20, Phillip Helbig <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
: I've never used Kermit, but I appreciate your effort.  If you need a 
: test account, let me know.  I have both VAX and ALPHA running, both with 
: C compilers.  (Compilers---and OS on Alpha for that matter---are not 
: completely up-to-date, but I plan to upgrade VMS on ALPHA and my 
: compilers on ALPHA (maybe VAX as well if a) there is anything new and b) 
: I can get some media) sometime within the next few months).)
:
I would like to have access to anything at all.  Obviously it is important
to support the latest releases on the latest hardware, but it is also
important to keep supporting older VMS releases, older hardware, older
C compilers, and older TCP/IP stacks.

: How hardware-specific is Kermit?
:
I would like to think: Not At All!

- Frank

From brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam Fri Nov 20 17:07:25 2009
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From: brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> writes:
> . . .  I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> that have C compilers.

eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.

-- 

Rob Brooks    MSL -- Marlborough, MA		brooks!cuebid.usa.hp.com

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From: gartmann@nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 first Alpha test
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In article <mPxREwnJ2j8r@cuebid.usa.hp.com>, brooks@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) writes:
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> writes:
>> . . .  I lost access almost completely to VMS.  I'll do
>> my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
>> (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
>> that have C compilers.
>
>eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
>It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.

The deathrow cluster (http://deathrow.vistech.net/) would be an option as well.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

-- 
 Max-Planck-Institut fuer      Phone   : +49-761-5108-464   Fax: -80464
 Immunbiologie
 Postfach 1169                 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de
 D-79011  Freiburg, Germany
               http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html

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On 20 Nov, 14:12, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com

VAX and Alpha are available on Deathrow http://deathrow.vistech.net/

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On Nov 20, 6:12=A0am, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com

For VAX you might try a SIMH emulator with a hobbyest license (which
includes compilers).


Sean

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On 20 Nov, 14:12, bro...@cuebid.usa.hp.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> writes:
>
> > . . . =A0I lost access almost completely to VMS. =A0I'll do
> > my best to carry VMS support forward, but I'll need guest access
> > (telnet or ssh, ftp) to VMS systems of all vintages and hardware
> > that have C compilers.
>
> eisner.decus.org, a volunteer-run system, is an Alpha running V8.3.
> It has a slew of compilers, and access is free.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks =A0 =A0MSL -- Marlborough, MA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0brooks!cu=
ebid.usa.hp.com


See also deathrow.vistech.net for a alpha and a VAX

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> [...]
>   http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
> [...]

   There are a few more things to look into, but for a start:

ALP $ gdiff -u ckuusy.c_orig ckuusy.c
--- ckuusy.c_orig       2009-11-18 16:16:07 -0600
+++ ckuusy.c    2009-11-20 10:26:12 -0600
@@ -3606,8 +3606,8 @@
                      failmsg = "%CKERMIT-E-SEARCHFAIL, no files for -
s";
 #else
                      failmsg = "No files for -s";
-                 }
 #endif /* VMS */
+                 }
                  XFATAL(failmsg);
              }
              if (z > 1) {
@@ -4742,8 +4742,3 @@
     }
 }
 #endif /* NOCMDL */
-
-#ifdef VMS
-/* This is the most horrible hack ever */
-}
-#endif /* VMS */


(Well if it wasn't, it certainly was in the running.)


  I can't remember if these are old or new (or fixed before or
not):

    Compiling ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20]CKUATH.C

#define des_cblock DES_cblock
...................^
%CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_cblock" conflicts
with a cu
rrent definition because the replacement lists differ.  The
redefinition is now
in effect.
at line number 131 in file SSL$ROOT:[INCLUDE]DES_OLD.H;1

#define des_key_schedule DES_key_schedule
.........................^
%CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_key_schedule"
conflicts wit
h a current definition because the replacement lists differ.  The
redefinition i
s now in effect.
at line number 133 in file SSL$ROOT:[INCLUDE]DES_OLD.H;1


I'll try to look at it when I get a chance.

From fdc@panix.com Fri Nov 20 17:07:46 2009
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On 2009-11-20, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:    There are a few more things to look into, but for a start:
:
: ALP $ gdiff -u ckuusy.c_orig ckuusy.c
:
Thanks, I was staring right at that spot without seeing it.  I should
have put on my special #ifdef glasses...

:  #endif /* NOCMDL */
: -
: -#ifdef VMS
: -/* This is the most horrible hack ever */
: -}
: -#endif /* VMS */
:
: (Well if it wasn't, it certainly was in the running.)
:
In the edit history I mentioned the "old LISP trick", I don't know if
anybody still remembers it but if your LISP program didn't "compile",
you put a card full of right parens at the end and it fed it through
the reader again.

: I can't remember if these are old or new (or fixed before or not):
:
: #define des_cblock DES_cblock
: ...................^
: %CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_cblock" conflicts
: with a current definition because the replacement lists differ...
:
I'm not sure why this is even being picked up unless a secure build
is being attempted.  In that case, there are some things to be aware
of.  First, OpenSSL changed the names of the DES routines between
0.9.6 and 0.9.7; it might be necessary to add -DOPENSSL_097 to the
CC flags.  Second (probably not relevant in this case), OS vendors are
starting to remove DES encryption from all their products.

: I'll try to look at it when I get a chance.
:
Thanks.  I didn't even have an opportunity to try a VMS build until
yesterday.  When I finally got it to compile at the last minute I tried an
FTP command but got the external FTP rather than the built-in one, even
though your code is there.  I must have missed a command-line option in 
the build.

- Frank

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On Nov 20, 5:52=A0am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> It's been a while since new C-Kermit code has seen the light
> of day in our "daily builds" area but now, against all odds,
> C-Kermit 9.0 is ready for testing. =A0Here's the web page that
> describes it:
>
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html


It makes cleanly on CentOS 5 with "make linux" and seems to work fine.

On
fog:$ uname -a
HP-UX fog B.11.23 U ia64 1361301988 unlimited-user license

with
fog:$ cc --version
cc: HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.15 [May 16 2007]

make hpux1100o+ KFLAGS=3D-DCK_INI_B

issues several compile warnings listed below. These did not occur when
I originally made

C-Kermit 8.0.212 Dev.26, 20 Dec 2006, for HP-UX 11.00

but that was apparently with a less fussy compiler. I just remade that
source on the above box/compiler, and with the exception of three of
the "function was declared but never referenced" warnings, I got all
the below and several others. Interestingly, the HP-UX binaries made
by this compiler and its libraries are about twice the size of the one
I made in Jan, 2007.


"ckuusr.c", line 7486: warning #2177-D: label "havehost" was declared
but
          never referenced
        havehost:                       /* Come here with s -> host */
        ^

"ckuus4.c", line 6951: warning #4277-D: logical AND with a constant,
do you
          mean to use '&'?
            if (flags && INPSW_COU) {   /* INPUT /COUNT */
                      ^

"ckuus6.c", line 628: warning #2177-D: function "doymdir" was declared
but
          never referenced
  _PROTOTYP(static int doymdir,(int));
                       ^

"ckuus7.c", line 9807: warning #2177-D: label "xcx_net" was declared
but never
          referenced
    xcx_net:
    ^

"ckuus7.c", line 10098: warning #2177-D: label "xcx_serial" was
declared but
          never referenced
    xcx_serial:
    ^

"ckcfns.c", line 2498: warning #2940-D: missing return statement at
end of
          non-void function "xgnbyte"
  }
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 2334: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "char *ctermid(char *)" (declared at line 522 of
          "/usr/include/stdio.h") is ignored after this unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern char *ctermid();           /* Wish they all had this! */
                   ^

"ckutio.c", line 11836: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "char *asctime(const struct tm *)" (declared at line 256 of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      char *asctime();
            ^

"ckutio.c", line 11837: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct tm *localtime();
                 ^

"ckutio.c", line 14476: warning #2177-D: function "sigchld_handler"
was
          declared but never referenced
  sigchld_handler(sig) int sig; {
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 12099: warning #2177-D: function "congetbuf" was
declared but
          never referenced
  congetbuf(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckutio.c", line 14351: warning #2177-D: function "pty_chk" was
declared but
          never referenced
  pty_chk(fd) int fd; {
  ^

"ckufio.c", line 2641: warning #2177-D: label "doaccess" was declared
but
          never referenced
    doaccess:
    ^

"ckufio.c", line 4655: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct tm * localtime();
                  ^

"ckufio.c", line 4809: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern struct tm * localtime();
                         ^

"ckufio.c", line 5093: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct tm *localtime(const time_t *)" (declared at line 283
of
          "/usr/include/sys/time.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern struct tm * localtime();
                         ^

"ckufio.c", line 5312: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "int utime(const char *, const struct utimbuf *)" (declared
at line
          34 of "/usr/include/utime.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      extern int utime();
                 ^

"ckufio.c", line 6088: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "DIR *opendir(const char *)" (declared at line 187 of
          "/usr/include/sys/dirent.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      DIR *fd, *opendir();
                ^

"ckufio.c", line 6090: warning #3197-D: the prototype declaration of
          "struct dirent *readdir(DIR *)" (declared at line 188 of
          "/usr/include/sys/dirent.h") is ignored after this
unprototyped
          redeclaration
      struct dirent *readdir();
                     ^

"ckudia.c", line 4996: warning #2236-D: controlling expression is
constant
           if (lbuf && *lbuf) {
               ^

"ckcnet.c", line 3442: warning #4232-D: conversion from "struct
sockaddr *" to
          a more strictly aligned type "struct sockaddr_in *" may
cause
          misaligned access
              sin =3D (struct sockaddr_in *) &dns_addrs[0];
                    ^

"ckcnet.c", line 7407: warning #2068-D: integer conversion resulted in
a
          change of sign
          cp[2] =3D '\377';
                  ^

"ckcnet.c", line 7408: warning #2068-D: integer conversion resulted in
a
          change of sign
          cp[3] =3D '\377';
                  ^

"ckcnet.c", line 13511: warning #4232-D: conversion from "struct
sockaddr *"
          to a more strictly aligned type "struct sockaddr_in *" may
cause
          misaligned access
                      sin =3D (struct sockaddr_in *) &addr[nout++];
                            ^

"ckcftp.c", line 15599: warning #2177-D: label "notemp" was declared
but never
          referenced
        notemp:
        ^

"ckcftp.c", line 14512: warning #2177-D: function "fts_cpl" was
declared but
          never referenced
  fts_cpl(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 14472: warning #2177-D: function "fts_dpl" was
declared but
          never referenced
  fts_dpl(x) int x; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 2000: warning #2177-D: function "xprintc" was
declared but
          never referenced
  xprintc(char c)
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 2010: warning #2177-D: function "bytswap" was
declared but
          never referenced
  bytswap(c0,c1) int * c0, * c1; {
  ^

"ckcftp.c", line 8590: warning #2177-D: function "shopl" was declared
but
          never referenced
  shopl(x) int x; {
  ^

--
(for email use this address please - you can figure it out)

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro net       Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless
Spectator


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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> : [...]
> : #define des_cblock DES_cblock
> : ...................^
> : %CC-W-MACROREDEF, The redefinition of the macro "des_cblock" conflicts
> : with a current definition because the replacement lists differ...
> :
> I'm not sure why this is even being picked up unless a secure build
> is being attempted.  In that case, there are some things to be aware
> of.  First, OpenSSL changed the names of the DES routines between
> 0.9.6 and 0.9.7; it might be necessary to add -DOPENSSL_097 to the
> CC flags.  Second (probably not relevant in this case), OS vendors are
> starting to remove DES encryption from all their products.
> : [...]

   Well, of _course_ it's a secure build!  Where's the fun if
you don't enable all the options?

   Defining OPENSSL_097 seems to do no good.  The first
definition of des_cblock is around ckuath.c:195:

#else /* KRB4 */
#ifdef CK_SSL
#define  des_cblock Block               <---
#ifdef COMMENT
#define  const_des_cblock const Block
#endif /* COMMENT */
#define  des_key_schedule Schedule      <---
#endif /* CK_SSL */

Then, someone drags in <openssl/des_old.h>:

[...]
#ifndef OPENSSL_DES_LIBDES_COMPATIBILITY
#define des_cblock DES_cblock
#define const_des_cblock const_DES_cblock
#define des_key_schedule DES_key_schedule
[...]

which is where we get the %CC-W-MACROREDEF complaints about
des_cblock and des_key_schedule.  Defining
OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT does evade the problem,
resulting in a nearly clean build.  I'm not sure how this
should be fixed.

   The remaining complaint (only "%CC-I-QUESTCOMPARE", so not
a big problem) is:

    Compiling ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20]CKVTIO.C

        while ((n--) && xx_inc(2) >= 0) ; /* Ignore Warning - see
comments */
........................^
%CC-I-QUESTCOMPARE, In this statement, the unsigned expression "(--
ttxbn>=0?(uns
igned)(ttxbuf[ttxbp++]&0X00000000000000FF):txbufr(...))" is being
compared with
a relational operator to a constant whose value is not greater than
zero.  This
might not be what you intended.
at line number 921 in file
ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20]ckvtio.c;1


   My (latest) build command:

      @ CKVKER.COM SFI D "CK_SSL,OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT"

and:

ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20] C-Kermit>show
versions

Versions:
 C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.01, 16 Nov 2009
 Numeric: 900299
 Built for:  OpenVMS Alpha
 Running on: OpenVMS Alpha 8 V8.3     Alpha
 Patches: (none)
 Communications I/O 9.0.124, 16 Oct 2009 for OpenVMS Alpha
 File support, 9.0.181,  16 Oct 2009 for OpenVMS Alpha
 C-Kermit library, 9.0.045, 16 Nov 2009
 C-Kermit Protocol Module 9.0.160, 16 Oct 2009
 C-Kermit functions, 9.0.229, 15 Feb 2009
 Command package 9.0.167, 16 October 2008
 User Interface 9.0.295, 10 November 2009
 Character Set Translation 9.0.042, 16 Oct 2009
 CONNECT Command 8.0.062 5 Apr 2004
 Dial Command, 9.0.160, 16 Oct 2009
 Script Command, 9.0.032, 16 Oct 2009
 Network support, 9.0.293, 16 Oct 2009
 Telnet support, 9.0.273, 16 Oct 2009
 FTP Client, 9.0.253, 16 Oct 2009
 Authentication, 9.0.234, 16 Oct 2009
 SSL/TLS support, 9.0.226, 16 Oct 2009

ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_2009-11-20] C-Kermit>


   I'm assuming that "FTP Client, 9.0.253, 16 Oct 2009" means
that I got the internal FTP client.  It seemed to work, at
least a little, but when I tried "ftp dir" in a populous
directory, I got an uninterruptable listing (which seemed to
go on for a very long time).  The normal (TCPIP) FTP client
handles Ctrl/C better (apparently sending an "ABOR" command),
and not running until everything's been spewed to the
terminal.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> [...]
>   http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
> [...]

   This footnote in http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html
is incorrect:

      *  VMS file sizes are counted in blocks rather than
      bytes, so in a sense VMS files have always been "long".
      However there is no specific support for "longer" files
      in VMS C-Kermit, nor, as far as I know, in VMS itself.
      C-Kermit was changed in version 9.0 to allow for larger
      number in the file transfer display.

   At the RMS level, VMS has always supported file sizes up to
1TB (512 bytes/block * 2G blocks), but the C run-time library
deals in bytes, and it was restricted to 32-bit (usually
signed) size values.  On non-VAX architectures, VMS V7.2 added
64-bit file size/offset values to the C RTL (enabled by the
_LARGEFILE macro in <decc$types.h>).  Until around V7.3-2,
some C RTL ECO (patch kit) was required to get things to work
well enough to use.  Also, as explained in <decc$types.h>,
"This feature requires a version of the Compaq C compiler with
support for #pragma __extern_prefix."  My guess would be
DEC/Compaq/HP C V6.0 or later, but I don't know.

   The VMS builder, ckvker.com, now says:

[...]
   P1 Build options (no white space, or enclose in quotes):
[...]
       F = large-file support
[...]

so the user needs some awareness to enable large-file support.

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Hello,

>From a Solaris server, im connecting to a Windows ftp server to put
some files.

When i use the /as-name option in mput command, i got this error:

failed 550 {filename}: The system cannot find the path specified.

If i dont use /as-name, the file is successfuly uploaded.

I'm using /recursive option too.

Any idea why this error occurs?

Thanks

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On 2009-12-17, Paulo <petrybr@gmail.com> wrote:
: From a Solaris server, im connecting to a Windows ftp server to put
: some files.
:
: When i use the /as-name option in mput command, i got this error:
:
: failed 550 {filename}: The system cannot find the path specified.
:
: If i dont use /as-name, the file is successfuly uploaded.
:
: I'm using /recursive option too.
:
: Any idea why this error occurs?
:
First please try the same thing using C-Kermit 9.0 as the client:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

I say this because a bug regarding computed pathnames in recursive
FTP operations was fixed in this version.

If there is no difference, I'll need to see some logs.  Tell C-Kermit to
"set ftp debug on" and then give the commands to connect to the server and
upload, then send me the results (copy and paste) at kermit@columbia.edu.

- Frank

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Hi
Is there a version of C-Kermit that I can use on an HP Integrity
rx6600 HP running OpenVMS V8.3-1H1?

Do I have to use the 9.0 alpha test or will C-Kermit 8.0 run ok on
this platform?

Many thanks
Etienne

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Etienne wrote:

> Is there a version of C-Kermit that I can use on an HP Integrity
> rx6600 HP running OpenVMS V8.3-1H1?
>
> Do I have to use the 9.0 alpha test or will C-Kermit 8.0 run ok on
> this platform?

   I doubt that the builders in any unmodified Kermit 8.0 kit
will work well on an IA64 system.  If your "C-Kermit 8.0" is
C-Kermit 8.0.212, then you might have better luck using the
changed files at:

      http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/2007-02-01/

And (re-)read the instructions in the builder.

   The 9.0 kit is in relatively good shape for a modern VMS
version (say, V7.3 and up), but see:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.kermit.misc/browse_thread/thread/6150b48571242abf

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From: Etienne <80n80n@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
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On 19 Dec, 08:57, Steven Schweda <sms.antin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Etienne wrote:
> > Is there a version of C-Kermit that I can use on an HP Integrity
> > rx6600 HP running OpenVMS V8.3-1H1?
>
> > Do I have to use the 9.0 alpha test or will C-Kermit 8.0 run ok on
> > this platform?
>
> =A0 =A0I doubt that the builders in any unmodified Kermit 8.0 kit
> will work well on an IA64 system. =A0If your "C-Kermit 8.0" is
> C-Kermit 8.0.212, then you might have better luck using the
> changed files at:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/2007-02-01/
>
> And (re-)read the instructions in the builder.
>
> =A0 =A0The 9.0 kit is in relatively good shape for a modern VMS
> version (say, V7.3 and up), but see:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.kermit.misc/browse_thre...

Steven
Thanks.  I couldn't follow that 9.0 thread very well.  Does it mean
that 9.0 will work or won't work?

Etienne

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Etienne wrote:

>  [...] Does it mean
> that 9.0 will work or won't work?

   Substitute this file, and it should do pretty well:

http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/v9r0_299_2009-11-20/ckuusy.c

   I built mine with the command shown in the other thread.  I
didn't do any real testing, however.

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On 20 Dec, 02:24, Steven Schweda <sms.antin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Etienne wrote:
> > =A0[...] Does it mean
> > that 9.0 will work or won't work?
>
> =A0 =A0Substitute this file, and it should do pretty well:
>
> http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/v9r0_299_2009-11-20/ckuusy.c
>
> =A0 =A0I built mine with the command shown in the other thread. =A0I
> didn't do any real testing, however.

Steven
Thanks, but I think I'm on a totally different level to you.
Unfortunately I don't have the skills to compile anything or hack
around very much.

Does *any* version of Kermit work on an HP Integrity rx6600 HP running
OpenVMS V8.3-1H1? If yes, which version?  That's all I want to know.

Actually, what I really need to achive is a mechanism for doing file
downloads from the VMS host to a client PC via the PowerTerm terminal
emulator.  It supports Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem.  Should I
explore these as feasible alternatives?

Thanks.
Etienne






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Etienne wrote:

> Thanks, but I think I'm on a totally different level to you.
> Unfortunately I don't have the skills to compile anything or hack
> around very much.

   Can you read?  Kermit does come with some documentation.
I've showed the command I used to build it.  It does not come
with pre-built VMS IA64 executables, so if you can't compile
anything, then you may need to look for more help.

> Does *any* version of Kermit work on an HP Integrity rx6600 HP running
> OpenVMS V8.3-1H1? If yes, which version?

   I believe that the latest V9.0 kit will work (better, if
you replace that one C file).

>   That's all I want to know.

   If you say so.

> Actually, what I really need to achive is a mechanism for doing file
> downloads from the VMS host to a client PC via the PowerTerm terminal
> emulator.  It supports Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem.  Should I
> explore these as feasible alternatives?

   Why not use something like FTP?

   I'd be a little amazed if you can find any working %modem
software for VMS IA64, so, from that list, I'd think that
Kermit would be your best chance.

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On 21 Dec, 16:53, Steven Schweda <sms.antin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Etienne wrote:
> > Thanks, but I think I'm on a totally different level to you.
> > Unfortunately I don't have the skills to compile anything or hack
> > around very much.
>
> =A0 =A0Can you read? =A0Kermit does come with some documentation.
> I've showed the command I used to build it. =A0It does not come
> with pre-built VMS IA64 executables, so if you can't compile
> anything, then you may need to look for more help.
>
> > Does *any* version of Kermit work on an HP Integrity rx6600 HP running
> > OpenVMS V8.3-1H1? If yes, which version?
>
> =A0 =A0I believe that the latest V9.0 kit will work (better, if
> you replace that one C file).
>
> > =A0 That's all I want to know.
>
> =A0 =A0If you say so.
>
> > Actually, what I really need to achive is a mechanism for doing file
> > downloads from the VMS host to a client PC via the PowerTerm terminal
> > emulator. =A0It supports Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem. =A0Should I
> > explore these as feasible alternatives?
>
> =A0 =A0Why not use something like FTP?
>
> =A0 =A0I'd be a little amazed if you can find any working %modem
> software for VMS IA64, so, from that list, I'd think that
> Kermit would be your best chance.

Steven
Thank you.  That's very helpful.

I don't think FTP is scriptable from PowerTerm, but I'll check that
out.

To recap on your advice, I'm going to have to compile Kermit anyway.
And after I've downloaded the install kit I should replace the file
ckuusy.c with the one in your link.  And I should do that before
compiling I assume?

Do I need anything special in order to compile Kermit or will all the
tools be available and pre-installed?  Also, do I need any special
permissions?

Thanks
Etienne

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Etienne wrote:

> To recap on your advice, I'm going to have to compile Kermit anyway.
> And after I've downloaded the install kit I should replace the file
> ckuusy.c with the one in your link.  And I should do that before
> compiling I assume?

   It won't help much after.

> Do I need anything special in order to compile Kermit or will all the
> tools be available and pre-installed?  Also, do I need any special
> permissions?

   You need a C compiler, which is commonly available, but it
is an optional product.  No special permissions should be
needed.

From fdc@panix.com Tue Dec 29 14:27:51 2009
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
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On 2009-12-21, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Etienne wrote:
:
:> To recap on your advice, I'm going to have to compile Kermit anyway.
:> And after I've downloaded the install kit I should replace the file
:> ckuusy.c with the one in your link.  And I should do that before
:> compiling I assume?
:
:    It won't help much after.
:
:> Do I need anything special in order to compile Kermit or will all the
:> tools be available and pre-installed?  Also, do I need any special
:> permissions?
:
:    You need a C compiler, which is commonly available, but it
: is an optional product.  No special permissions should be
: needed.
:
As far as I can tell the replacement ckuusy.c file is exactly the same
as the one in the current C-Kermit 9.0 distribution:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

As for VMS 8.3 / Itanium, I don't see any reason why this or any other
recent version of Kermit would not work on it.  But I can't swear to it
because I no longer have access any VMS box later than 6.2 / Alpha, and
that one just barely.  If somebody could give me Telnet or SSH access and
a guest ID on any VMS 7.x or 8.x systems that have DECC and UCX or
whatever, I can verify and make any needed corrections and, when the time
comes, build new binaries for the archive.

VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
you find in the archive:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck80binaries.html#vms

(the ones at the bottom of the VMS section) should work.  These are
prebuilt binary images, you should be able to just download and run
them.  Release and installation notes are here:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvins.html
  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvbwr.html

Feedback by email to fdc@columbia.edu appreciated (as you can see
I'm not able to check the newsgroup very often).

- Frank

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On Dec 29, 2:27=A0pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2009-12-21, Steven Schweda <sms.antin...@gmail.com> wrote:: Etienne wr=
ote:
>
> :
> :> To recap on your advice, I'm going to have to compile Kermit anyway.
> :> And after I've downloaded the install kit I should replace the file
> :> ckuusy.c with the one in your link. =A0And I should do that before
> :> compiling I assume?
> :
> : =A0 =A0It won't help much after.
> :
> :> Do I need anything special in order to compile Kermit or will all the
> :> tools be available and pre-installed? =A0Also, do I need any special
> :> permissions?
> :
> : =A0 =A0You need a C compiler, which is commonly available, but it
> : is an optional product. =A0No special permissions should be
> : needed.
> :
> As far as I can tell the replacement ckuusy.c file is exactly the same
> as the one in the current C-Kermit 9.0 distribution:
>
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
>
> As for VMS 8.3 / Itanium, I don't see any reason why this or any other
> recent version of Kermit would not work on it. =A0But I can't swear to it
> because I no longer have access any VMS box later than 6.2 / Alpha, and
> that one just barely. =A0If somebody could give me Telnet or SSH access a=
nd
> a guest ID on any VMS 7.x or 8.x systems that have DECC and UCX or
> whatever, I can verify and make any needed corrections and, when the time
> comes, build new binaries for the archive.
>
> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
> you find in the archive:
>
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck80binaries.html#vms
>
> (the ones at the bottom of the VMS section) should work. =A0These are
> prebuilt binary images, you should be able to just download and run
> them. =A0Release and installation notes are here:
>
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvins.html
> =A0http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckvbwr.html
>
> Feedback by email to f...@columbia.edu appreciated (as you can see
> I'm not able to check the newsgroup very often).
>
> - Frank

Frank,

On Itanium with 8.2, I had no problems with C-Kermit (native or
translated images).

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

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In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
(snip)
 
> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
> you find in the archive:

As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
years old.

-- glen

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On Dec 29, 11:41=A0am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>
> > VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
> > now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> > compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary tha=
t
> > you find in the archive:
>
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago. =A0
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> years old.

Since VMS is only 30 years old (barely), it shouldn't be too
surprizing cf. the 40 years noted above. :-)  OTOH, user
programs linked under VMS 1.0 (necessarily VAX) will still
run on VMS 7.3 (VAX), with small caveats concerning access
to system structures, etc., that change with O/S version...

   -Ken


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In article <hhdm0s$eil$5@naig.caltech.edu>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>  
>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>> you find in the archive:
> 
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
> years old.

I understand the same is true of UNISYS and whatever it is they call
EXEC today (I last worked with EXEX 8 over 25 years ago and was truly
surprised when told my binaries could be run using the same ECL I ran
them with back then!)

bill

-- 
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From M.Kraemer@gsi.de Wed Dec 30 12:49:35 2009
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glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>  
> 
>>VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>>now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>>compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>>you find in the archive:
> 
> 
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
> years old.

I wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
out-of-the-box?


From ken.fairfield@gmail.com Wed Dec 30 12:50:17 2009
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On Dec 29, 1:05=A0pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae...@gsi.de> wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
>
> > In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> > (snip)
>
> >>VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
> >>now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> >>compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary tha=
t
> >>you find in the archive:
>
> > As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> > as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago. =A0
> > I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> > years old.
>
> I wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
> Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
> out-of-the-box?

Assuming that's a serious question (is it? really?), the answer is
a simple "no".  VAX binaries are different from Alpha binaries are
different from IA64 binaries (because the underlying architecture
off the three are so different from each other).  Period, end of
story.

Many (most?) VAX binaries could be translated to Alpha binaries
using a utility called VEST.  Many (most?) Alpha binaries can
similarly be translated to IA64 binaries using the analogous
Itanium translator (whose name escapes me).

I don't believe there was ever an Alpha to VAX "back" translator,
nor is there one for IA64 to Alpha (or VAX).

    -Ken

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> As far as I can tell the replacement ckuusy.c file is exactly the same
> as the one in the current C-Kermit 9.0 distribution:
>
>   http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

   The only fix in there was for the misplaced brace ("}",
"/* This is the most horrible hack ever */").  I haven't
fetched a source kit since 2009-11-20 (as my directory name
should suggest), so if that fix is in, then that's fine.

> As for VMS 8.3 / Itanium, I don't see any reason why this or any other
> recent version of Kermit would not work on it.  [...]

   Sounds right to me, but I haven't tested much there (or
anywhere else) beyond getting the thing built.


   I did notice one questionable comment in ckvker.com:

$! 01-Feb-07 1.4? sms Added P1 options

where I said "1.4?" instead of "1.41", because I didn't know
if there was anything newer than what I was looking at.
Apparently, this is now known.

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On 29-12-2009 14:41, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz<fdc@panix.com>  wrote:
> (snip)
>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>> you find in the archive:
>
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> years old.

VMS did not exist 40 years ago.

But within the obvious limitation of the same instruction set, then
I would expect VMS programs to also continue to run forever.

Meaning that a VMS VAX 1.0 program from 1978 should run today
VMS VAX 7.3 and a VMS Alpha 1.0 (before version number
synchronization was done) program from 1992 should run today on
VMS Alpha 8.3.

Arne

PS: I don't think it is so unique.

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On 29-12-2009 17:11, Ken Fairfield wrote:
> On Dec 29, 1:05 pm, Michael Kraemer<M.Krae...@gsi.de>  wrote:
>> glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
>>
>>> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz<f...@panix.com>  wrote:
>>> (snip)
>>
>>>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>>>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>>>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>>>> you find in the archive:
>>
>>> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
>>> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.
>>> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
>>> years old.
>>
>> I wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
>> Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
>> out-of-the-box?
>
> Assuming that's a serious question (is it? really?), the answer is
> a simple "no".  VAX binaries are different from Alpha binaries are
> different from IA64 binaries (because the underlying architecture
> off the three are so different from each other).  Period, end of
> story.
>
> Many (most?) VAX binaries could be translated to Alpha binaries
> using a utility called VEST.  Many (most?) Alpha binaries can
> similarly be translated to IA64 binaries using the analogous
> Itanium translator (whose name escapes me).
>
> I don't believe there was ever an Alpha to VAX "back" translator,
> nor is there one for IA64 to Alpha (or VAX).

AEST

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/omsva/omsais.html

Arne

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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>  
>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>> you find in the archive:
> 
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
> years old.
> 
> -- glen

Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or 
11/750?

After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone 
would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.

From ken.fairfield@gmail.com Fri Jan  1 17:28:08 2010
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On Dec 30, 12:45=A0pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> > (snip)
>
> >> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to th=
e
> >> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> >> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary th=
at
> >> you find in the archive:
>
> > As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> > as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago. =A0
> > I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> > years old.
>
> > -- glen
>
> Err. . . =A0How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or
> 11/750?
>
> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone
> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought compatibility mode was
dropped after VMS 3.x.  I do know that it stopped being shipped
as part of base VMS, i.e., for at least a while it was a separately
licensed product, but is it still available on VMS/VAX 7.3?

    -Ken

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Ken Fairfield wrote:
> On Dec 30, 12:45 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
>>> (snip)
>>>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>>>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>>>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>>>> you find in the archive:
>>> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
>>> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
>>> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
>>> years old.
>>> -- glen
>> Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or
>> 11/750?
>>
>> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone
>> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought compatibility mode was
> dropped after VMS 3.x.  I do know that it stopped being shipped
> as part of base VMS, i.e., for at least a while it was a separately
> licensed product, but is it still available on VMS/VAX 7.3?
> 
>     -Ken

It was alive and well under 3.7.  I think you might have to resurrect a 
VAX 11/7xx machine and a copy of VMS V3.x in order to do it today.

I question if this is a real problem for anyone today.  If it is, I feel 
sorry (but not too sorry) for those responsible!


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In article <1OSdnTx8WqkpX6bWnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@giganews.com>, rgilbert88
@comcast.net says...> 
> Ken Fairfield wrote:
> > On Dec 30, 12:45 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> >>> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> >>> (snip)
> >>>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
> >>>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> >>>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
> >>>> you find in the archive:
> >>> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> >>> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
> >>> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> >>> years old.
> >>> -- glen
> >> Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or
> >> 11/750?
> >>
> >> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone
> >> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought compatibility mode was
> > dropped after VMS 3.x.  I do know that it stopped being shipped
> > as part of base VMS, i.e., for at least a while it was a separately
> > licensed product, but is it still available on VMS/VAX 7.3?
> > 
> >     -Ken
> 
> It was alive and well under 3.7.  I think you might have to resurrect a 
> VAX 11/7xx machine and a copy of VMS V3.x in order to do it today.
> 
> I question if this is a real problem for anyone today.  If it is, I feel 
> sorry (but not too sorry) for those responsible!

The RSX-11 AME still runs on OpenVMS-VAX V7.3 (or whatever the official
name is.)  As does ROSS/V (RSTS/E emulation).  I don't know if you can
get support for VAX-11/RSX, since Mentec seems to have crawled into the
woodwork.  We no longer have any supported ROSS/V customers, but offer
me enough $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.  :-)

However the oldest RSX executables are from the early 1970s.  

RSTS/E .BAC files from V6A (1974?) should still run.  I don't remember
if anyone has ever tried anything older than that.  Same with mid-70's
RT11 executables that ran under real RSTS/E back then.  I'm not sure
when the original PIP.SAV was released, maybe with V6B (early 1976),
but it should still work on ROSS/V on VAXes unless it has Y2K problems.

-- 
John

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In article <66772871-5558-46ea-b26f-643f201dac0b@d20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought compatibility mode was
> dropped after VMS 3.x.  I do know that it stopped being shipped
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> licensed product, but is it still available on VMS/VAX 7.3?

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 > After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone 
 > would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.

Imagining it isn't so hard.

One of the key things mickeysoft fails to understand is that _some_
people do occasionally need to use old data.  We had a textbook written
25 years ago using MacWord 1.0 that we needed to read.  None of the
Mac or Windows Words we could find would touch it.  (IIRC, even the
version of MacWord which followed 1.0 wouldn't.)  None of the word
processor format converters we could find would touch it.  We ended up
using Word 1.0 to extract the text, and were fortunate that a student
around the office happened to have a very old Mac with that very old
software installed.

Archivists these days are trying to figure out how to prevent the
last 40 years of data and documents from vanishing down the ratholes
of history.  They're faced with choices like doing one-shot conversions
to flat text, hoping like hell that newer versions will read older
documents, running old software on the ever decreasing collection of
old hardware, or running it in emulation.  Like any other endeavour,
the working solution seems to be a hybrid.

De

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Dennis Boone wrote:
>  > After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone 
>  > would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.
> 
> Imagining it isn't so hard.
> 
> One of the key things mickeysoft fails to understand is that _some_
> people do occasionally need to use old data.  We had a textbook written
> 25 years ago using MacWord 1.0 that we needed to read.  None of the
> Mac or Windows Words we could find would touch it.  (IIRC, even the
> version of MacWord which followed 1.0 wouldn't.)  None of the word
> processor format converters we could find would touch it.  We ended up
> using Word 1.0 to extract the text, and were fortunate that a student
> around the office happened to have a very old Mac with that very old
> software installed.
> 
> Archivists these days are trying to figure out how to prevent the
> last 40 years of data and documents from vanishing down the ratholes
> of history.  They're faced with choices like doing one-shot conversions
> to flat text, hoping like hell that newer versions will read older
> documents, running old software on the ever decreasing collection of
> old hardware, or running it in emulation.  Like any other endeavour,
> the working solution seems to be a hybrid.
> 
> De

If the text or data is really that valuable you can print the text on 
high quality (acid free) paper and copy the data to modern media.  If 
you can't read the original media, I can put you in touch with a guy who 
makes his living reading weird, obsolete, or deteriorated media.

Keep in mind that Sturgeon's Law applies here.  Sturgeon's Law is 
"Ninety percent of everything is crud!"   I'm inclined to believe that 
Sturgeon's constant is far too optimistic; I think ninety-eight percent 
is probably closer to being correct.

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Dennis Boone schrieb:

> One of the key things mickeysoft fails to understand is that _some_
> people do occasionally need to use old data.  We had a textbook written
> 25 years ago using MacWord 1.0 that we needed to read.  None of the
> Mac or Windows Words we could find would touch it. 

There's a reason they called it "Word" and
not "Book" or "Text".
Should have used [La]TeX, i.e. plain ASCII.

> Archivists these days are trying to figure out how to prevent the
> last 40 years of data and documents from vanishing down the ratholes
> of history. 

One might be tempted to say: if it's not printed on paper,
it's not worth keeping it.


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In article <Qrmdnbi9nf6YIabWnZ2dnUVZ_jxi4p2d@giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or 
> 11/750?
> 
> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone 
> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.

   Is the RSX AME still supported under 7.3?

   If so, then, yes, it may be possible to run a 40 year old binary
   on the latest VMS for VAX.

   But that depends on the definition of "run".  The AME added
   compatability mode emulation when the first VAXen without
   compatability mode shipped.  I'm fairly sure you could also get
   40 year old images to run on SIMH on just about any platform.

   So if I have SIMH simulating a PDP-11 on an Itanium, am I "running"
   40 year old images on the latest VMS for Itanium?

   Or do we require hardware execution of the instructions to at least
   the extent that VAX-11 series microcode implemented compatability
   mode instructions?


From arne@vajhoej.dk Fri Jan  1 17:32:50 2010
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On 31-12-2009 17:39, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<CkTD8HhjfW7c@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> 	koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article<Qrmdnbi9nf6YIabWnZ2dnUVZ_jxi4p2d@giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88@comcast.net>  writes:
>>> Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or
>>> 11/750?
>>>
>>> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone
>>> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.
>>
>>     Is the RSX AME still supported under 7.3?
>>
>>     If so, then, yes, it may be possible to run a 40 year old binary
>>     on the latest VMS for VAX.
>>
>>     But that depends on the definition of "run".  The AME added
>>     compatability mode emulation when the first VAXen without
>>     compatability mode shipped.  I'm fairly sure you could also get
>>     40 year old images to run on SIMH on just about any platform.
>>
>>     So if I have SIMH simulating a PDP-11 on an Itanium, am I "running"
>>     40 year old images on the latest VMS for Itanium?
>>
>>     Or do we require hardware execution of the instructions to at least
>>     the extent that VAX-11 series microcode implemented compatability
>>     mode instructions?
>
> And, once again, people here have completely missed the point.  IBM
> (and I am pretty sure UNISYS) have maintained that compatability from
> the very beginning with no breaks in between.  We are not talking about
> someone coming along after the fact and writting an emulator but the
> original company thinking that backwards compatability was necesary
> enough to build it into their products even after the original
> hardware ceased to exist.  We are not talking about "VESTING", we
> are talking about just plain running old programs.

DEC could have kept PDP-11 compatibility mode in all VAX'es and have
added both PDP-11 and VAX compatibility modes to Alpha.

But I doubt that it would have been worth the cost.

The VMS market is not like the IBM mainframe market.

And UNISYS is mostly selling services and x86-64 servers with
Windows and Linux today.

Arne

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Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> DEC could have kept PDP-11 compatibility mode in all VAX'es and have
> added both PDP-11 and VAX compatibility modes to Alpha.


The lack of success of IA64 can be blamed squarely on the fact that IA64
doesn't provide PDP-11 emulation :-)


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JF Mezei wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> DEC could have kept PDP-11 compatibility mode in all VAX'es and have
>> added both PDP-11 and VAX compatibility modes to Alpha.
> 
> 
> The lack of success of IA64 can be blamed squarely on the fact that IA64
> doesn't provide PDP-11 emulation :-)
> 

Er. . . .  How do you account for the success of Alpha?

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In article <5OKdnY3xy88nkKPWnZ2dnUVZ_rJi4p2d@giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Er. . . .  How do you account for the success of Alpha?

   Implementation of F floating point, just like PDP-11.

   8-)


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On 2009-12-31, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
: In comp.os.vms Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
: (snip)
:  
:> Unfortunately I don't have a VT52 emulator to run it on, and the sources 
:> seem to be long lost :-( 
:
: I thought that a version of kermit I used to use included the option
: of VT52 emulation.   Or maybe I am remembering a telnet client,
: such as NCSA telnet.
:
Both Kermit 95 for Windows and MD-DOS Kermit for DOS include VT52 emulation.
Also VT100, 102, 220, and 320 (the latter two minus some features like
downloadable character sets, page switching, etc).

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95.html

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/mskermit.html

- Frank

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In article <hhi827$ltf$1@naig.caltech.edu>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> In comp.os.vms Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> (snip)
>  
> > Unfortunately I don't have a VT52 emulator to run it on, and the sources 
> > seem to be long lost :-( 
> 
> I thought that a version of kermit I used to use included the option
> of VT52 emulation.   Or maybe I am remembering a telnet client,
> such as NCSA telnet.
> 

I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not 
C-Kermit.

OTOH, VT52 support is there on many Alpha consoles (all but the early 
Alphas IIRC), so doing a SET HOST through to a VAX from one of those 
should do the trick.

-- 
Paul Sture

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On Jan 1, 3:18=A0pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos...@sture.ch> wrote:
>
> I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not
> C-Kermit.


As Frank said, VT-52 emulation (and other DEC terminal emulations)
still exists in MS-DOS Kermit and Kermit-95.

C-Kermit has never been a terminal emulator. It works with whatever
terminal (xterm, console, whatever) that you use to access the system
you run it on.

--
Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net>        Any clod can have the facts;
San Francisco Bay Area, California    having opinions is an art. -
                                      C. McCabe, The Fearless Spectator

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Ken Fairfield schrieb:
> On Dec 29, 1:05 pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae...@gsi.de> wrote:
> 
>>glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>(snip)
>>
>>>>VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>>>>now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>>>>compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>>>>you find in the archive:
>>
>>>As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
>>>as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
>>>I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
>>>years old.
>>
>>I wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
>>Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
>>out-of-the-box?
> 
> 
> Assuming that's a serious question (is it? really?), 

well, yes, at least partly.
The owners of VMS could have made the various
transitions as smooth as Apple, for example.
Invoking an extra translator is not as "out-of-the-box"
as the z/OS example, IMHO.
So VAX compatibility was "broken" after 14 years, in 1992,
when Alpha appeared and one had to switch if one wanted
more powerful VMS equipment. Alpha compatibility was
broken after another 14 years, in 2006 (latest),
when more powerful VMS equipment had to be Itanic based.
If you look at the competition, PA-RISC lasted about 20 years,
Sparc more than 20 years, and Power turns 20 this year
and may still have left a few more years of life.
In this sense VMS is one of the least backward compatible
platforms out there.


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Michael Kraemer wrote:

> well, yes, at least partly.
> The owners of VMS could have made the various
> transitions as smooth as Apple, for example.


I agree. This is especially true for the VAX-Alpha transition because it
happened at the same time as many layered products were abandonned and
not ported. Having a transparent way to move to Alpha with those
packages would have helped, even if performance wouldn't have been
stellar in emulated mode.

For Alpha-IA64 transition, I am aware of only All-IN-1 which was not
ported. Were there others ?

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In article 
<d24fd09f-8357-4aa2-914d-3eee8b9ae91d@m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
 Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:

> On Jan 1, 3:18 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos...@sture.ch> wrote:
> >
> > I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not
> > C-Kermit.
> 
> 
> As Frank said, VT-52 emulation (and other DEC terminal emulations)
> still exists in MS-DOS Kermit and Kermit-95.
> 
> C-Kermit has never been a terminal emulator. It works with whatever
> terminal (xterm, console, whatever) that you use to access the system
> you run it on.
> 

But no DOS or Windows here.

-- 
Paul Sture

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In article <paul.nospam-89EC0C.20543504012010@pbook.sture.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> writes:
> In article 
> <d24fd09f-8357-4aa2-914d-3eee8b9ae91d@m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
>  Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 1, 3:18 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos...@sture.ch> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not
>> > C-Kermit.
>> 
>> 
>> As Frank said, VT-52 emulation (and other DEC terminal emulations)
>> still exists in MS-DOS Kermit and Kermit-95.
>> 
>> C-Kermit has never been a terminal emulator. It works with whatever
>> terminal (xterm, console, whatever) that you use to access the system
>> you run it on.
>> 
> 
> But no DOS or Windows here.

And just how hard is it to create a DOS floppy with nothing on it but
MSKERMIT?  Don't you have some old 8088 laptop floating around?  I
still have a COMPAQ 386 and a Zenith 8088 that I use exclusively for
those times when I need a quick console with really good DEC emulation.

bill

-- 
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University of Scranton   |
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In article <7qf0ufFku6U1@mid.individual.net>,
 billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-89EC0C.20543504012010@pbook.sture.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> writes:
> > In article 
> > <d24fd09f-8357-4aa2-914d-3eee8b9ae91d@m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> >  Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Jan 1, 3:18 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos...@sture.ch> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not
> >> > C-Kermit.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> As Frank said, VT-52 emulation (and other DEC terminal emulations)
> >> still exists in MS-DOS Kermit and Kermit-95.
> >> 
> >> C-Kermit has never been a terminal emulator. It works with whatever
> >> terminal (xterm, console, whatever) that you use to access the system
> >> you run it on.
> >> 
> > 
> > But no DOS or Windows here.
> 
> And just how hard is it to create a DOS floppy with nothing on it but
> MSKERMIT?  Don't you have some old 8088 laptop floating around?  I
> still have a COMPAQ 386 and a Zenith 8088 that I use exclusively for
> those times when I need a quick console with really good DEC emulation.
> 

No. I had a grand clearout of old stuff several years ago.

-- 
Paul Sture

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> I am (or was) the moderator, [...]

Thanks for dropping in.

> [...]
> The structure of the Kermit newsgroups is a little strange to begin
> with, and the .announce group was obviously little used even when it
> worked.  The surviving .misc group is still used but has low traffic.
> There is really no need for separate subgroups but I think it's
> rather late in the game to be changing things.

A moderated group with broken submission address is extremly frustra-
ting. This must be fixed as soon as possible. On the other hand a low
traffic group dedicated to vintage computing does little harm, even if
it is oddly named.

> The best idea would be to just delete or decomission the .announce
> group.

All right.

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For those who didn't see the first announcement in November, a new release
of C-Kermit communication software:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html

is nearing release, version 9.0, described here:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

The second Alpha-test version, Alpha.02, is now ready for testing:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckdaily.html

The major new features of C-Kermit 9.0 are 64-bitness (where possible) and
adaptation to all (or most of) the current Unix and VMS platforms, notably
current Linux and Mac OS X releases.  Other new features are listed in
web pages cited above.

I've been able to build and test it on various versions of Linux, Mac OS X,
AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MirBSD, MINIX, IRIX, Solaris, OSF/1,
and VMS, on many types of hardware.  I have *not* been able to test it on
anything not just mentioned, for example SCO or QNX.

If anyone has a platform where C-Kermit 9.0 is not yet listed as having
been built successfully:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html#platforms

please give it spin and let me know how it goes, or contact me so we
can arrange something.

The mainstream Unix versions (Linux, Mac OS X, etc) seem pretty solid so
far, and the build procedures are much simplified.  For example, "make
linux" should work on any Linux version or distribution automatically.
"make macosx" should work on any Mac OS X version back to 10.3.9, maybe
earlier.

Those of you who believe that Kermit software is a relic of the past might
be surprised.  True, it's no longer a mass-market tool familiar to every end
user as it was in the 80s and part of the 90s; now it is used more by
systems integrators, sysadmins, and network managers for its combined
communication and automation capabilites; for an overview see:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit.html

Some notable advantages of C-Kermit are that it is self contained and has a
small footprint by today's standards.  Self contained means it doesn't need
all kinds of plug-ins (like Perl does) that can shift and change out from
under it, thus breaking scripts.  The scripting language is extremely (if
not perfectly) stable, and also portable between many platforms including
all Unixes, VMS, and Windows (plus many more mostly vanished), and also
portable among different communication methods: serial, telnet, ssh...

To illustrate, here's an example of how C-Kermit is used here at Columbia U
for configuring racks full of HP Blade servers through their iLO interface:

  http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/net/ilosetup.html

_SECURE VERSIONS_

Secure C-Kermit versions (that is, versions that are capable of performing
secure authentication and strong encryption over the Internet) are built
with special makefile targets, such as "make linux+ssl", "make linux+krb5",
"make linux+krb5+ssl", and require that you have the relevant security
package package (such as OpenSSL) already installed: header files and
libraries.

_THE VMS VERSION_

C-Kermit 9.0 for VMS can (for the first time) be built with the C-Kermit
FTP client:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ftpclient.html

enabled, for both clear-text (insecure) and SSL (secure) FTP connections,
a feature which has been available in the Unix version for some years.
At present these features are not configured by default since they have
some rough edges, you have to build it like this:

  @ckver.com if "" "CK_SSL"

The FTP client itself is pretty much stuck to the C library and thus
can only handle stream binary fines and Stream_LF files, but none of
the RMS types.  Of course FTP protocol itself does not allow for these
types, but I'm aware that other VMS ftp clients did something special with
them.  Any VMS C programmers who might like to have a scriptable, and
optionally secure, FTP client are welcome to pitch in (contact me).

C-Kermit 9.0 has the same license as versions 7.0 and 8.0, but this might
change before the final release.

Frank da Cruz
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
New York City
http://kermit.columbia.edu/
fdc@columbia.edu

From invalid@invalid.invalid Tue Feb  2 14:34:51 2010
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Subject: Can Kermit do raw TCP connection?
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Is it possible to connect to a raw TCP port? There's no telnet
or rlogin protocol server -- it's just like a serial port.

I've been reading through Kermit docs and FAQs, and it seems
that Kermit can't connection using a raw TCP connection -- that
it can only using Telnet, Rlogin, or some other
application-layer potocol.

Am I missing an option somewhere?

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I'm not available
                                  at               for comment..
                               visi.com            

From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb  2 14:37:47 2010
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On 2010-02-02, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
: Is it possible to connect to a raw TCP port? There's no telnet
: or rlogin protocol server -- it's just like a serial port.
:
: I've been reading through Kermit docs and FAQs, and it seems
: that Kermit can't connection using a raw TCP connection -- that
: it can only using Telnet, Rlogin, or some other
: application-layer potocol.
:
: Am I missing an option somewhere?
:
Try this:

  set host <host-name-or-address> <port-name-or-number> /raw-socket

If you have any problems with it, let me know.

- Frank

From invalid@invalid.invalid Fri Feb  5 15:47:55 2010
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On 2010-02-02, Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> On 2010-02-02, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>: Is it possible to connect to a raw TCP port? [...]
>
> Try this:
>
>   set host <host-name-or-address> <port-name-or-number> /raw-socket

Brilliant!  It's obious once you know where to hit "?"

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I'm rated PG-34!!
                                  at               
                               visi.com            

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"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@panix.com> wrote in message 
news:slrnhmejtk.5hv.fdc@panix2.panix.com...
> For those who didn't see the first announcement in November, a new release
> of C-Kermit communication software:
>
>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html
>
> is nearing release, version 9.0, described here:
>
>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
>
> The second Alpha-test version, Alpha.02, is now ready for testing:
>
>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckdaily.html
>
> The major new features of C-Kermit 9.0 are 64-bitness (where possible) and
> adaptation to all (or most of) the current Unix and VMS platforms, notably
> current Linux and Mac OS X releases.  Other new features are listed in
> web pages cited above.

<major snip>

Congrats, Frank.

Kermit has been an integral part of our software & data distribution 
environment for years - from VMS to Win/Mac. Though we don't use it much 
anymore, it still works reliably when we need to use it. Thanks for the 
continuing effort. 



From Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Feb  5 16:02:27 2010
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> I've been able to build and test it on various versions of Linux, Mac OS X,
> AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MirBSD, MINIX, IRIX, Solaris, OSF/1,
> and VMS, on many types of hardware.  I have *not* been able to test it on
> anything not just mentioned, for example SCO or QNX.

The following error occurs on SunOS 4.1.1:

[...]
gcc -O2 -DSUNOS41 -DHDBUUCP -DNDGPWNAM -DCK_NCURSES -DFNFLOAT
-DCK_AUTHENTICATION -funsigned-char  -DCK_SSL -DTCPSOCKET -DBIGBUFOK
-I/usr/local/openssl/include  -I/usr/local/include
-DKTARGET=\"sunos41gcc+openssl\" -c ckutio.c
ckutio.c: In function `pty_make_raw':
ckutio.c:14180: error: structure has no member named `c_iflag'
ckutio.c:14180: error: `PARMRK' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14180: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ckutio.c:14180: error: for each function it appears in.)
ckutio.c:14180: error: `ISTRIP' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14180: error: `BRKINT' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14180: error: `INLCR' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14180: error: `IGNCR' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14180: error: `ICRNL' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14181: error: structure has no member named `c_iflag'
ckutio.c:14181: error: `INPCK' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14181: error: `IGNPAR' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14181: error: `IXANY' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14181: error: `IXON' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14181: error: `IXOFF' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14182: error: structure has no member named `c_iflag'
ckutio.c:14182: error: `IGNBRK' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14225: error: structure has no member named `c_oflag'
ckutio.c:14225: error: `OPOST' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14249: error: structure has no member named `c_lflag'
ckutio.c:14272: error: structure has no member named `c_lflag'
ckutio.c:14272: error: `ICANON' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14272: error: `ISIG' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14280: error: structure has no member named `c_lflag'
ckutio.c:14286: error: structure has no member named `c_cflag'
ckutio.c:14286: error: `CSIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14286: error: `PARENB' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14286: error: `PARODD' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14287: error: structure has no member named `c_cflag'
ckutio.c:14287: error: `CS8' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14287: error: `CREAD' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14290: error: structure has no member named `c_cflag'
ckutio.c:14313: error: structure has no member named `c_cflag'
ckutio.c:14325: error: `NCCS' undeclared (first use in this function)
ckutio.c:14326: error: structure has no member named `c_cc'
ckutio.c:14332: error: structure has no member named `c_iflag'
ckutio.c:14333: error: structure has no member named `c_oflag'
ckutio.c:14334: error: structure has no member named `c_lflag'
ckutio.c:14335: error: structure has no member named `c_cflag'
ckutio.c: In function `ckxfprintf':
ckutio.c:15716: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a
cast
ckutio.c: In function `ckxprintf':
ckutio.c:15840: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a
cast
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ckutio.o'


These definitions are in termios.h which is not included by the source
code on SunOS platform. Either you include termios.h or you have to
provide these definitions.
BTW, GCC version is 3.4.6.

Christian


From fdc@panix.com Fri Feb  5 16:07:43 2010
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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On 2010-02-03, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
: On Feb 1, 2:03 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:>
:> The second Alpha-test version, Alpha.02, is now ready for testing:
:
: I built it on three platforms:
:
: make linux on CentOS 5 i686
: make hpux1100o+ KFLAGS=-DCK_INI_B on HP-UX B.11.23 ia64
: and make macosx on OS X 10.6.2 (Intel iMac)
:
Thanks Mark, I added the ones to the table that weren't there before:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

: There were some 'pointer recast to different size integer',
: 'unreferenced', etc warnings but all built OK and are working (so
: far).
:
Some warnings are not only not worth fixing, but fixing them can be
dangerous, sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.  (That applies
especially to the SSL modules.)

- Frank

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On 2010-02-03, John Smith (not the one @ HP) <a@nonymous.com> wrote:
:
: "Frank da Cruz" <fdc@panix.com> wrote in message 
: news:slrnhmejtk.5hv.fdc@panix2.panix.com...
:> For those who didn't see the first announcement in November, a new release
:> of C-Kermit communication software:
:>
:>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html
:>
:> is nearing release, version 9.0, described here:
:>
:>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html
:>
:> The second Alpha-test version, Alpha.02, is now ready for testing:
:>
:>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckdaily.html
:>
:> The major new features of C-Kermit 9.0 are 64-bitness (where possible) and
:> adaptation to all (or most of) the current Unix and VMS platforms, notably
:> current Linux and Mac OS X releases.  Other new features are listed in
:> web pages cited above.
:
:<major snip>
:
: Congrats, Frank.
:
: Kermit has been an integral part of our software & data distribution 
: environment for years - from VMS to Win/Mac. Though we don't use it much 
: anymore, it still works reliably when we need to use it. Thanks for the 
: continuing effort. 
:
Thanks for the encouragement even though these days it usually comes with
a qualifier like that.  I think after all these years, stability is maybe
the best think about Kermit, because watching what goes on around me here
as everything else breaks on about a daily basis due to "patches" and
"updates" -- entire websites included -- I think it might have become a
forgotten concept.

- Frank

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On 2010-02-04, Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> I've been able to build and test it on various versions of Linux, Mac OS X,
:> AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MirBSD, MINIX, IRIX, Solaris, OSF/1,
:> and VMS, on many types of hardware.  I have *not* been able to test it on
:> anything not just mentioned, for example SCO or QNX.
:
: The following error occurs on SunOS 4.1.1:
:
: [...]
: gcc -O2 -DSUNOS41 -DHDBUUCP -DNDGPWNAM -DCK_NCURSES -DFNFLOAT
: -DCK_AUTHENTICATION -funsigned-char  -DCK_SSL -DTCPSOCKET -DBIGBUFOK
: -I/usr/local/openssl/include  -I/usr/local/include
: -DKTARGET=\"sunos41gcc+openssl\" -c ckutio.c
: ckutio.c: In function `pty_make_raw':
: ckutio.c:14180: error: structure has no member named `c_iflag'
: ckutio.c:14180: error: `PARMRK' undeclared (first use in this function)
: ckutio.c:14180: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
: etc etc
:
For some years SunOS 4.1.1 was main platform around here, including for
C-Kermit development, but it is loooooong gone.  In particular, the 
pty_make_raw() function was added only recently, with no opportunity to
test it on that platform.

: These definitions are in termios.h which is not included by the source
: code on SunOS platform. Either you include termios.h or you have to
: provide these definitions.
: BTW, GCC version is 3.4.6.
:
Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?

: Christian

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?

I had to add the following parts to make it work:

ckupty.c
--------
[...]
#define HAVE_TTYNAME
#define HAVE_WAITPID
+
+#ifdef SUNOS41
+#define BSD44ORPOSIX
+#endif

#ifndef USE_TERMIO
#ifdef LINUX
[...]

ckutio.c
--------
[...]
#endif /* MAXNAMLEN */
#endif /* BSD4 */
+
+#ifdef SUNOS41
+#define BSD44ORPOSIX
+#define SVORPOSIX
+#include <termios.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#endif

/*
  Minix 2.0 support added by Terry McConnell,
[...]

Using NCurses instead of Curses produced an illegal instruction trap
right after printing the "C-Kermit>" prompt, but I suspect my local
NCurses installation has some flaws. With curses/termcap, everything
seems to be fine, but I haven't tested everything.

Christian


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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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On 2010-02-09,
Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?
:
: I had to add the following parts to make it work:
: ...
OK, thanks, I'll take your word for it since I don't have
SunOS 4.1 around any more to verify it!  These changes will be
in Alpha.03.

:   Minix 2.0 support added by Terry McConnell,
: [...]
:
: Using NCurses instead of Curses produced an illegal instruction trap
: right after printing the "C-Kermit>" prompt, but I suspect my local
: NCurses installation has some flaws. With curses/termcap, everything
: seems to be fine, but I haven't tested everything.
:
You built it on Minix 2.0?  So the version with curses and not
ncurses came out of the 'minix20' target, but you had to do the chmems
to keep the compiler passes from dumping core, right?  How big was the
executable (for the table at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html )?

I should try chmem on Minix 3 1.2... (Minix 3 1.5 has virtual memory
so no tricks are needed).

- Frank

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On Feb 9, 4:52=A0pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank

See http://deathrow.vistech.net/

From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb  9 12:26:19 2010
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Stories needed
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These days software development tends to be more about politics than
algorithms and code.  I need stories about how people are using
Kermit software in their organizations, especially in areas like these:

 . Network management
 . System administration
 . PBX or Netphone management 
 . Instrumentation
 . Collection and transmission of experimental or medical data
 . Financial transactions
 . Website management and CGI
 . Warehouse or franchise management and inventory

Configuration or polling of routers, switches, blade servers, UPS's...
Electronic funds transfer over secure FTP...
Insurance claims submission by modem...
Remote or local diagnostics of communications or other equipment...
Installing software updates in equipment by loading EPROM or whatever...

And in any applications like these, why Kermit was chosen.

Thanks, it would be a big help.

  Frank

Frank da Cruz
Director
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
612 West 115th Street
New York NY  10025-7799
USA
Email: fdc@columbia.edu
Voice: +1 212 854-3508
Fax:   +1 212 662-6442
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

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On 2010-02-09,
Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?
:
: I had to add the following parts to make it work:
: ...
OK, thanks, I'll take your word for it since I don't have
SunOS 4.1 around any more to verify it!  These changes will be
in Alpha.03.

:   Minix 2.0 support added by Terry McConnell,
: [...]
:
: Using NCurses instead of Curses produced an illegal instruction trap
: right after printing the "C-Kermit>" prompt, but I suspect my local
: NCurses installation has some flaws. With curses/termcap, everything
: seems to be fine, but I haven't tested everything.
:
You built it on Minix 2.0?  So the version with curses and not
ncurses came out of the 'minix20' target, but you had to do the chmems
to keep the compiler passes from dumping core, right?  How big was the
executable (for the table at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html )?

I should try chmem on Minix 3 1.2... (Minix 3 1.5 has virtual memory
so no tricks are needed).

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb  9 12:51:02 2010
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: SunOS 4, Minix 2
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:49:44 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2010-02-09,
Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: I had to add the following parts to make it work:
:
After replying to your post I also tried to send you email but it
bounced "studserv.uni-stuttgart.de: host not found".  The mail said:

Hi Christian, thanks for the patches, they will be in Alpha.03.

Can you give me the information to make a table entry for SunOS 4.1
in the C-Kermit 9.0 page?

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html

(makefile target, size of binary, etc).  I don't suppose it
supports long files.  ("show features", at the bottom, will say
that CK_OFF_T is 8, rather than 4.

I need the same data for Minix 2.0 too, if you have it.

Thanks again, Grüß Gott (do they still say that in Stuttgart?
I used to live there a long time ago, as an "Ami go home" :-)

- Frank

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Subject: Re: Announce: C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.02
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?

I had to add the following parts to make it work:

ckupty.c
--------
[...]
#define HAVE_TTYNAME
#define HAVE_WAITPID
+
+#ifdef SUNOS41
+#define BSD44ORPOSIX
+#endif

#ifndef USE_TERMIO
#ifdef LINUX
[...]

ckutio.c
--------
[...]
#endif /* MAXNAMLEN */
#endif /* BSD4 */
+
+#ifdef SUNOS41
+#define BSD44ORPOSIX
+#define SVORPOSIX
+#include <termios.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#endif

/*
  Minix 2.0 support added by Terry McConnell,
[...]

Using NCurses instead of Curses produced an illegal instruction trap
right after printing the "C-Kermit>" prompt, but I suspect my local
NCurses installation has some flaws. With curses/termcap, everything
seems to be fine, but I haven't tested everything.

Christian


From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb  9 11:53:15 2010
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On 2010-02-09,
Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
:> Have you tried including termios.h?  Does it work?
:
: I had to add the following parts to make it work:
: ...
OK, thanks, I'll take your word for it since I don't have
SunOS 4.1 around any more to verify it!  These changes will be
in Alpha.03.

:   Minix 2.0 support added by Terry McConnell,
: [...]
:
: Using NCurses instead of Curses produced an illegal instruction trap
: right after printing the "C-Kermit>" prompt, but I suspect my local
: NCurses installation has some flaws. With curses/termcap, everything
: seems to be fine, but I haven't tested everything.
:
You built it on Minix 2.0?  So the version with curses and not
ncurses came out of the 'minix20' target, but you had to do the chmems
to keep the compiler passes from dumping core, right?  How big was the
executable (for the table at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html )?

I should try chmem on Minix 3 1.2... (Minix 3 1.5 has virtual memory
so no tricks are needed).

- Frank

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On Feb 9, 4:52=A0pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank

See http://deathrow.vistech.net/

From fdc@panix.com Tue Feb  9 12:26:19 2010
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Stories needed
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These days software development tends to be more about politics than
algorithms and code.  I need stories about how people are using
Kermit software in their organizations, especially in areas like these:

 . Network management
 . System administration
 . PBX or Netphone management 
 . Instrumentation
 . Collection and transmission of experimental or medical data
 . Financial transactions
 . Website management and CGI
 . Warehouse or franchise management and inventory

Configuration or polling of routers, switches, blade servers, UPS's...
Electronic funds transfer over secure FTP...
Insurance claims submission by modem...
Remote or local diagnostics of communications or other equipment...
Installing software updates in equipment by loading EPROM or whatever...

And in any applications like these, why Kermit was chosen.

Thanks, it would be a big help.

  Frank

Frank da Cruz
Director
The Kermit Project
Columbia University
612 West 115th Street
New York NY  10025-7799
USA
Email: fdc@columbia.edu
Voice: +1 212 854-3508
Fax:   +1 212 662-6442
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?

   I do, but I won't be able to reach the power switch for
about a week.  There's also:

      http://deathrow.vistech.net/
      http://deathrow.vistech.net/account-info.shtml

and probably some others elsewhere.

From helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de Tue Feb  9 17:30:38 2010
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From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
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In article <slrnhn34mm.em3.fdc@panix2.panix.com>, Frank da Cruz
<fdc@panix.com> writes: 

> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?

Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3

It's probably not the latest C-compiler.  On the other hand, do you WANT 
the latest C-compiler for your build?


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On 9 Feb, 16:52, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank


The Deathrow public access vms cluster includes a VAX with C compiler.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?

   By the way, I seem to have tried to build the 2009-11-20
kit on my VMS V5.5-2 system, and had a bunch of trouble with
%CC-I-IMPLICITFUNC, %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, and so on.  Also, in
ckvfio.c, defining NOCONVROUTINES does bypass the "#include
<conv$routines.h>" directive, but apparently not the code
which uses the conv$* functions, further down.  As I recall, I
also spotted a comment somewhere (else?) which suggested that
support for older VMS versions was not highly valued, so I
didn't pursue it.  The evidence is on a disk I can't see now,
but I suspect that it worked better on VMS VAX V7.3.

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On 2010-02-09,
Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
: In article <slrnhn34mm.em3.fdc@panix2.panix.com>,
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> writes: 
:
:> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
:
: Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3
:
: It's probably not the latest C-compiler.  On the other hand, do you WANT 
: the latest C-compiler for your build?
:
I used to try to cover every combination of architecture, VMS version,
TCP/IP product and version, and C compiler and version.  Kind of compulsive,
I know...  But so far I have no C-Kermit 9.0 results for the VAX, so
whatever is out there (in the past I had my own VAX 730, 750, several
MicroVAXes, and a VAXstation... And a VAXmate!... now all dead and gone).

I'd be particularly interested in how "@ckvker f" works out (the "long
file" support option) on 32-bit VMS hardware.

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> I'd be particularly interested in how "@ckvker f" works out (the "long
> file" support option) on 32-bit VMS hardware.


   That's easy.  It won't.  In DECC$TYPES.H, all the
_LARGEFILE stuff is conditional on "!defined(__VAX)".  There
is no C run-time support for large files on VAX, and I expect
none in the future.  I believe that ckvker.com ignores "F" on
a VAX.  A complaint could be added, but I believe that it's
currently silent.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?

If nobody else comes forth, you can get back to me next week (this week
is not good for me).

From Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de Wed Feb 10 15:08:13 2010
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Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> You built it on Minix 2.0?  So the version with curses and not

No, I didn't. I've added the SunOS parts right above that Minix comment.

> to keep the compiler passes from dumping core, right?  How big was the
> executable (for the table at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html )?

The size of wermit (stripped, with curses/termcap) is 2400256 bytes. The
size of C-Kermit 8.0.211 (which runs fine with my NCurses... hmm...) is
2334720 bytes.
# ldd ./wermit
        -lc.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1.9
        -ldl.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0
# ldd /usr/local/bin/kermit
        -lncurses.5 => /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5.7
        -lc.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1.9
        -ldl.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0

BTW you need to modify the sys/ioctl.h include file, i.e. comment out
the "struct winsize" and "struct ttysize". Otherwise there will be a
conflict with sys/ttycom.h (included by termios.h) which also declares
these structs. But you need both includes.

Christian


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Hi.

I'm trying to send kernel image to u-boot bootloader using C-Kermit.
When I'm doing it on windows with Kermit 95 and configuration:

set line /dev/ttyS0
set speed 115200
set carrier-watch off
set handshake none
set flow-control none
robust
set file type bin
set file name lit
set rec pack 1000
set send pack 1000
set window 5

Everithing works fine. But when I use the same configuration on linux[1]
I got:

*************************
SEND-class command failed.
 Packets sent: 2
 Retransmissions: 11
 Timeouts: 0
 Damaged packets: 0
 Fatal Kermit Protocol Error: Too many retries

HINTS... If the preceding error message does not explain the failure:
 . Try changing the remote Kermit's FLOW-CONTROL setting.
 . Increase the retry limit (see HELP SET RETRY).
 . Try it again with SET STREAMING OFF.
 . Try it again with SET PARITY SPACE.
 . As a last resort, give a ROBUST command and try again.
Also:
 . Be sure the source file has read permission.
 . Be sure the target directory has write permission.
(Use SET HINTS OFF to suppress hints.)
*************************

I did many tryes witch diffrent configurations and I have no idea what
can be the reason...

[1] System is Ubuntu in virtualbox with Kermit 8.0.211.
-- 
Adam              "Prawda jest prosta - gdyby by³o inaczej
                   ka¿dy g³upiec móg³by j± zrozumieæ".

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On 2010-02-09, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
:
:    By the way, I seem to have tried to build the 2009-11-20
: kit on my VMS V5.5-2 system, and had a bunch of trouble with
: %CC-I-IMPLICITFUNC, %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, and so on.  Also, in
: ckvfio.c, defining NOCONVROUTINES does bypass the "#include
:<conv$routines.h>" directive, but apparently not the code
: which uses the conv$* functions, further down.  As I recall, I
: also spotted a comment somewhere (else?) which suggested that
: support for older VMS versions was not highly valued, so I
: didn't pursue it.  The evidence is on a disk I can't see now,
: but I suspect that it worked better on VMS VAX V7.3.
:
I used to have VMS 5.5 here and was able to build every C-Kermit
version up through 8.0.206 on it, making any needed corrections.
As I recall, the builds were clean, no warnings, except one which
is well marked.  (C-Kermit 8.0.206 also built OK on VMS 4.7.)

If you or somebody with VMS 5.x can send me patches to get around
any fatal problems building C-Kermit 9.0, I'll be glad to 
incorporate them.  We don't "deprecate" old versions of anything.
If there is a comment somewhere to that effect, it's not from me.

- Frank

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On 2010-02-10, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:
:> I'd be particularly interested in how "@ckvker f" works out (the "long
:> file" support option) on 32-bit VMS hardware.
:
:    That's easy.  It won't.  In DECC$TYPES.H, all the
: _LARGEFILE stuff is conditional on "!defined(__VAX)".  There
: is no C run-time support for large files on VAX, and I expect
: none in the future.  I believe that ckvker.com ignores "F" on
: a VAX.  A complaint could be added, but I believe that it's
: currently silent.
:
But in VMS, C-Kermit's file i/o routines (at least the ones used
for file transfer and for logs) are RMS, not C library, based.
So it might be just a question of the reporting -- file transfer
display, statistics, and thermometer.  But I confess, I haven't
had time to look at the code.

- Frank

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On 2010-02-10,
Christian Corti <Christian.Corti@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
: ...
: BTW you need to modify the sys/ioctl.h include file, i.e. comment out
: the "struct winsize" and "struct ttysize". Otherwise there will be a
: conflict with sys/ttycom.h (included by termios.h) which also declares
: these structs. But you need both includes.
:
Thanks, I've added this comment to sunos41 makefile target.
I'm not sure why this was never necessary before, or maybe it was
necessary and someone fixed the header files without my knowledge.

- Frank

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On 2010-02-10, Adam Mikuta <adammikutaWytnij@gmail.wyt.nij.com> wrote:
: Hi.
:
: I'm trying to send kernel image to u-boot bootloader using C-Kermit.
: When I'm doing it on windows with Kermit 95 and configuration:
:
: set line /dev/ttyS0
: set speed 115200
: set carrier-watch off
: set handshake none
: set flow-control none
: robust
: set file type bin
: set file name lit
: set rec pack 1000
: set send pack 1000
: set window 5
:
: Everithing works fine. But when I use the same configuration on linux[1]
: I got:
:
: *************************
: SEND-class command failed.
:  Packets sent: 2
:  Retransmissions: 11
:  Timeouts: 0
:  Damaged packets: 0
:  Fatal Kermit Protocol Error: Too many retries
:
: HINTS... If the preceding error message does not explain the failure:
:  . Try changing the remote Kermit's FLOW-CONTROL setting.
:  . Increase the retry limit (see HELP SET RETRY).
:  . Try it again with SET STREAMING OFF.
:  . Try it again with SET PARITY SPACE.
:  . As a last resort, give a ROBUST command and try again.
: Also:
:  . Be sure the source file has read permission.
:  . Be sure the target directory has write permission.
: (Use SET HINTS OFF to suppress hints.)
: *************************
:
: I did many tryes witch diffrent configurations and I have no idea what
: can be the reason...
:
: [1] System is Ubuntu in virtualbox with Kermit 8.0.211.
:
The software may be the same, but the computers, serial ports, and
serial drivers are different.  Clearly the packets are getting garbled
in the second case.  I can see that the hints are not very useful;
they should be more context-sensitive (since they know what the local
flow control is, and they know that streaming is not in effect).

My first suggestion would be to try a lower speed and/or shorter
packets.

- Frank

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On Feb 9, 9:52=A0am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
Has anyone stepped forward yet? If not contact me by e-mail.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?

I've built it on my local SIMH instance:

$ cc/vers
  Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3
$ mcr []wermit
  C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.02, 1 Feb 2010, for VAX/VMS
   Copyright (C) 1985, 2010,
    Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
  Type ? or HELP for help.

The zipped executable is 1736 blocks; let me know how you'd like to get 
it and I'd be happy to send it to you.

From fdc@panix.com Fri Feb 12 14:22:52 2010
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On 2010-02-11, starchild <totheedgeoftime@msn.com> wrote:
: On Feb 9, 9:52 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:> Anybody have a VAX (with C compiler) for building C-Kermit 9.0?
:>
:> Thanks,
:>
:> Frank
: Has anyone stepped forward yet? If not contact me by e-mail.
:
I think I'm pretty well now, thanks.  Meanwhile, although somebody is
doing builds for me on ia64, I don't have direct access to VMS on ia64,
which would be helpful if it's possible.

- Frank

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Dnia 10.02.2010 Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> napisa³/a:

> The software may be the same, but the computers, serial ports, and
> serial drivers are different.  Clearly the packets are getting garbled
> in the second case.  I can see that the hints are not very useful;
> they should be more context-sensitive (since they know what the local
> flow control is, and they know that streaming is not in effect).
>
> My first suggestion would be to try a lower speed and/or shorter
> packets.

It looks like virtualbox creates problem. Without it kermit works fine.

Thank you for your help.
-- 
Adam              "Prawda jest prosta - gdyby by³o inaczej
                   ka¿dy g³upiec móg³by j± zrozumieæ".

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Hello
I was wondering if anybody has a script file that will allow kermit to
do auto dialing a list of numbers? This script needs to be able to run
on OpenVMS (any version) and Windows (any version) and Kermit (any
version).
tks

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It should be easy enough to modify the script at <ftp://
kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/ckermit/autodial> to accept a list,
or perhaps one of the other scripts at <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
ckscripts.html#modm> is closer to what you want.

From fdc@panix.com Wed Feb 17 14:57:51 2010
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On 2010-02-16, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
: It should be easy enough to modify the script at:
:
:  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/ckermit/autodial
:
: to accept a list, or perhaps one of the other scripts at:
:
:   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html#modm
:
: is closer to what you want.
:
If you mean, try a bunch of different numbers to reach one specific
service or host, you can do that with a dialing directory, or you
can actually put a list of numbers in the DIAL command itself,
like this:

  dial {{firstnumber}{secondnumber}{thirdnumber}...{lastnumber}}

The curly braces are part of the command.  The technique is described here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit70.html#x2.1.16

If you mean dial a bunch of different hosts or services, one after the
other, that would be a matter of parameterizing the autodial script,
and then writing another short script to call it in a loop with the
appropriate parameters for each host or service.

Or you could do it all in a single, simple script.

  declare \&a[] = firstnumber secondnumber .... lastnumber

  set port /dev/ttyS0    # or whatever
  set speed 57600        # or whatever 
  set modem type generic # or whatever
  set flow rts/cts

  for i 1 \fdim(&a) 1 {
      dial \&a[i]
      if fail echo "DIAL \&a[i] failed - continuing..."
      # put the code here to do whatever you want to do with the call...
  }

If you have different access information for each host, that
could go into parallel arrays.

- Frank

From sms.antinode@gmail.com Fri Mar 12 14:58:14 2010
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   Fired up the local VAX (VMS V7.3).  Got an unexpected
complaint:

@ CKVKER.COM SFI D "CK_SSL,OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT"
[...]
    Compiling SYS$SYSDEVICE:
[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.V9R0_299_2010-02-01]CK_SSL.C
        ssl_get_dNSName(ssl) SSL * ssl;
        ^
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same
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                At line number 2433 in SYS$SYSDEVICE:
[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.V9R0_299_2010-02-01]CK_SSL.C;1.
[...]

Should these look the same or different?:

ALP $ sea *.h, *.c ssl_get_dnsname

******************************
ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_299_2010-02-01]ck_ssl.h;1

_PROTOTYP(char * ssl_get_dnsName,(SSL *));

******************************
ALP$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.v9r0_299_2010-02-01]ck_ssl.c;1

ssl_get_dNSName(ssl) SSL * ssl;

From sms.antinode@gmail.com Fri Mar 12 14:59:26 2010
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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> But in VMS, C-Kermit's file i/o routines (at least the ones used
> for file transfer and for logs) are RMS, not C library, based.
> So it might be just a question of the reporting -- file transfer
> display, statistics, and thermometer.  But I confess, I haven't
> had time to look at the code.

   Perhaps if you tell me this a few more times, I might
remember it.  (But, if experience is any guide, probably not.)

   I did try an FTP GET of a 5GB file on my most current VMS
VAX system, and as you had suggested, the file transfer was
successful, but the progress reporting was pretty miserable.
For example:

           File Size: 905019392
        Percent Done: 1   -
                          ...
10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
 Estimated Time Left: 05:42:20


        Percent Done:
100 //////////////////////////////////////////////////
                          ...
10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
 Estimated Time Left: (unknown)


        Percent Done: -154/-
                          ...
10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
 Estimated Time Left: (unknown)


//////////////////////
94 ////////////////////////////////////////////////
                          ...
10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
 Estimated Time Left: 01:39:21


//////////////////////
100///////////////////////////////////////////////////
                          ...
10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90..100
        Elapsed Time: 27:54:02


   You working on that 64-bit math package for 32-bit systems?

> If you or somebody with VMS 5.x can send me patches to get around
> any fatal problems building C-Kermit 9.0, I'll be glad to
> incorporate them.  We don't "deprecate" old versions of anything.
> If there is a comment somewhere to that effect, it's not from me.

   I'll try to re-investigate and see what I can do.  Ideally
before summer, when running the old VAX becomes (more)
unpleasant.

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> If you or somebody with VMS 5.x can send me patches to get around
> any fatal problems building C-Kermit 9.0, I'll be glad to
> incorporate them.  We don't "deprecate" old versions of anything.
> If there is a comment somewhere to that effect, it's not from me.

   Regarding large-file support on VMS, I haven't looked
closely at this, but specifying "F" to the builder will get
the C macros _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE defined.
Whether that does anything useful for, say, CK_OFF_T is
another question.

   Regarding HTTP support on VMS, defining NOHTTP seems to have
little if any effect:

$ if vms_ver .lts. "VMS_V62" then cln_def = cln_def
+",NOHTTP,NOCMDATE2TM"

Defining only IKSD causes problems.  Adding IKSDCONF does not
help much.  Adding CK_LOGIN reveals that, for example,
"inserver", "isguest", and "local" are all "not declared", and
don't appear in any header files.  I did find some loose
"extern" declarations scattered around in the ".c" files, but
I figured that these couldn't be serious.


   Regarding VAX builds, there are some suggested changes in:

   http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/v9r0_299_2010-02-01/

Patches and notes are in "notes_2010-02-01.txt".  Loose before
and after files are also in that directory.  With these
changes, I could get the following VAX builds to work with no
warnings (and fewer informationals than before):

   VMS V5.4, VAX C V3.1-051, UCX V1.3
   @ CKVKER.COM FLIS D "NOCONVROUTINES,INTSELECT,OLDFIB"

   VMS V5.5-2, DEC C V4.0-000, UCX V3.1
   @ CKVKER.COM FLIS D "BUGFILL7,INTSELECT"

   VMS V6.2, DEC C V6.0-001, UCX V4.0
   @ CKVKER.COM FLIS D

   VMS V7.3, Compaq C V6.4-005, TCPIP V5.3 - ECO 4
   @ CKVKER.COM FLIS D "CK_SSL,OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT"

I didn't do any serious testing with the resulting
executables, but none of the changes should wreck any working
code (I claim).

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In comp.unix.solaris Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> For those who didn't see the first announcement in November, a new release
> of C-Kermit communication software:
> 
>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html
> 
> is nearing release, version 9.0, described here:

I though I saw it all today when I came across a posting for where 
somebody was looking for a RSS reader for OpenVMS.

I can't tell if this is just as ridiculous or not.

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On 2010-03-06, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
:    Fired up the local VAX (VMS V7.3).  Got an unexpected
: complaint:
:
: @ CKVKER.COM SFI D "CK_SSL,OPENSSL_DISABLE_OLD_DES_SUPPORT"
: [...]
:     Compiling SYS$SYSDEVICE:
: [UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.V9R0_299_2010-02-01]CK_SSL.C
:         ssl_get_dNSName(ssl) SSL * ssl;
:         ^
: %CC-W-DUPEXTERN, The declaration of "ssl_get_dNSName" will map to the
: same external name as the declaration of "ssl_get_dnsName" at line 126 in
:  SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.V9R0_299_2010-02-01]CK_SSL.H;1.
:                 At line number 2433 in SYS$SYSDEVICE:
: [UTILITY.SOURCE.KERMIT.V9R0_299_2010-02-01]CK_SSL.C;1.
: [...]
:
: Should these look the same or different?:
:
Honestly I have no idea.  I was kind of hoping that somebody who
(a) cares, and (b) knows something VMS C programming and OpenSSL
(or HP SSL) on VMS will sort this stuff out.

I do know that in Unix, OPENSSL_097 must be defined for building
against OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later, because of the "great consonant shift".
Maybe that has something to do with it.

- Frank

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On 2010-03-07, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: You working on that 64-bit math package for 32-bit systems?
:
I did it already for Unix.  I just use off_t instead of int.  If a
32-bit system has off_t defined as a 64-bit signed int, poof, you
have 64-bit arithmetic.

For VMS, I'm hoping some VMS programmer will take a look at it
because my access to VMS isn't what it used to be.

- Frank

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On 2010-03-10, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
:    Regarding large-file support on VMS, I haven't looked
: closely at this, but specifying "F" to the builder will get
: the C macros _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE defined.
: Whether that does anything useful for, say, CK_OFF_T is
: another question.
:
Right.  Again, this is a job for somebody who is fluent in VMS.

:    Regarding HTTP support on VMS, defining NOHTTP seems to have
: little if any effect:
:
: $ if vms_ver .lts. "VMS_V62" then cln_def = cln_def
: +",NOHTTP,NOCMDATE2TM"
:
: Defining only IKSD causes problems.  Adding IKSDCONF does not
: help much.  Adding CK_LOGIN reveals that, for example,
: "inserver", "isguest", and "local" are all "not declared", and
: don't appear in any header files.  I did find some loose
: "extern" declarations scattered around in the ".c" files, but
: I figured that these couldn't be serious.
:
I don't think the HTTP code has ever been checked on VMS before.
I'm sure it needs work.  IKSD would need a lot of new work for
VMS; user authentication for one thing.

:    Regarding VAX builds, there are some suggested changes in:
:
:    http://antinode.info/ftp/kermit/v9r0_299_2010-02-01/
:
: Patches and notes are in "notes_2010-02-01.txt".
:
Thanks for these, I grabbed them just now.

: Loose before
: and after files are also in that directory.  With these
: changes, I could get the following VAX builds to work with no
: warnings (and fewer informationals than before):
:
Terrific, much appreciated.  I'll fold all these changes into
C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.03, which is taking longer than expected 
because of "things" happening around here.

- Frank

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Frank da Cruz wrote:

> : You working on that 64-bit math package for 32-bit systems?
> :
> I did it already for Unix.  I just use off_t instead of int.
> If a 32-bit system has off_t defined as a 64-bit signed int,
> poof, you have 64-bit arithmetic.

   Sadly, on VAX, off_t is 32 bits, and I'm unaware of any
64-bit integer type.  Normally I wouldn't care, but someone
recently reminded me that Kermit on VMS doesn't use the C RTL
for file I/O, which did suggest that there might be hope for
proper large-file behavior (even) on VAX.  However, if all the
size/offset code is written assuming that off_t will do the
job, then there's probably little hope of finding a practical
way to make it work on VAX.

   On the bright side, the builder's P1 "F" option leads to
defining the C macros _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE, and
they do seem to persuade a semi-recent non-VAX system (VMS >=
V7.2, DEC C > V5.2 (actually, "__DECC_VER > 50230003")) to use
a 64-bit off_t and CK_OFF_T.

   Running a quick "ftp /binary get" on that 5GB file on an
Alpha, I don't get the same unrealistic "File Size: 905019392"
which I did on the VAX, but the "File Size: <blank>" (with the
matching "Estimated Time Left: (unknown)") suggests that
someone somewhere still could use some work.  I'll try to keep
an eye open for negative numbers, and let you know.

   Got past "Bytes So Far: 2147483647" without going negative.
What could go wrong now?

   Also on the missing features list, I just noticed (again?
(Who can remember?)) that the code in ckvfio.c still uses
"struct NAM" everywhere, which means that ODS5 extended file
names can't be used.  The code in (my) ckvrtl.c shows one way
to allow the use of the new(er) NAML where it exists.  I'm not
sure how many Kermit buffers will overflow if we start using a
maximum name length of NAML$C_MAXRSS (4095) instead of the old
NAM$C_MAXRSS (255).  Other code can need revision because
formerly special characters (like, say, ":", "[", or " ") can
now appear in file names (with "^" prefixes).  Everything's
complicated (and getting worse all the time).  I can try to
put in the basic NAML support, but I would not bet on my doing
all the testing needed to see if everything really works right
on exotic extended file names.

   Speaking of maximum name length, nowadays, on VMS,
CKMAXPATH is being set to PATH_MAX (256), which is entirely
unrealistic for ODS5.  Listing extract:

[...]
 I1       12361 #ifndef CKMAXPATH
 I1    X  12362 #ifdef MAXPATHLEN                       /* (it
probably isn't) */
 I1    X  12363 #define CKMAXPATH MAXPATHLEN
 I1    X  12364 #else
 I1       12365 #ifdef PATH_MAX                         /* POSIX */
 I1       12366 #define CKMAXPATH PATH_MAX
 I1    X  12367 #else
[...]
 I1    X  12377 #ifdef VMS
 I1    X  12378 #define CKMAXPATH 675                   /* (derivation
is complicated...) */
 I1    X  12379 #else
[...]
          35585 static char nambuf[CKMAXPATH];          /* maximum
size of a file spec */
       E                           256
          35586 static char cwdbuf[NAM$C_MAXRSS];
       E                           255
[...]

I can't help wondering whence came that "675" value, but it's
not getting used, so it may not matter much.

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In article <35c371b6-5d75-40c2-89a3-00b977ee9b88@g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> writes:
>Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
>> : You working on that 64-bit math package for 32-bit systems?
>> :
>> I did it already for Unix.  I just use off_t instead of int.
>> If a 32-bit system has off_t defined as a 64-bit signed int,
>> poof, you have 64-bit arithmetic.
>
>   Sadly, on VAX, off_t is 32 bits, and I'm unaware of any
>64-bit integer type.  Normally I wouldn't care, but someone
>recently reminded me that Kermit on VMS doesn't use the C RTL
>for file I/O, which did suggest that there might be hope for
>proper large-file behavior (even) on VAX.  However, if all the
>size/offset code is written assuming that off_t will do the
>job, then there's probably little hope of finding a practical
>way to make it work on VAX.

64 bit integer math on VAX?  Simple!  VAX has instructions to implement
64 bit and larger datum.  ADDL/ADWC, SUBL/SBWC, EMUL, EMOD, EDIV and a
number of other bit manipulation instructions with virtually no limits
as to where the fields in the target datum begin or end.

What 64 bit math operations are needed?  Post them here.
-- 
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

  http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png
  
Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by
turning them into poor people. -- Billy Ray Valentine

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VAXman- <@sendspamhere.org> wrote:

> 64 bit integer math on VAX?  Simple!  [...]

   The big problem is not doing 64-bit arithmetic on a 32-bit
system, it's rewriting all the C code which expects to able to
use simple expressions ("a+b") to do the job, instead of using
functions in some 64-bit math package.  More work than it's
worth (to me, at least).  You're welcome to jump right in, but
the resulting code clutter would probably cause more problems
than it cured.

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C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.03 is ready for testing.  Here's the page that
summarizes what's new:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html

There's one item that should be of interest to any site that uses HP
ProCurve network switches.

But most of the work this time is specific to VMS:

 . Premilinary ODS5 support
 . "Large file" support on Alpha and IA64, including (we hope) correct
   file transfer progress display and statistics for huge files, and
   also access to 64-bit integers in the command and script language.
 . The Kermit FTP client is included by default in all TCP/IP builds.
   This needs a good deal of testing.
 . OpenSSL builds should automatically configure themselves according
   to the perceived SSL version.
 . Improved support for ever-older VMS versions.  Anybody out there
   have VMS 5-point-something?

For more about the Kermit FTP client see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html

This has been part of the Unix version of C-Kermit for almost 10 years
but until now has not been adapted to VMS.  Note that if you build
C-Kermit with SSL, then you'll also have a secure FTP client (FTPS).

Comments, questions, corrections, etc, to me.

- Frank
  fdc@columbia.edu

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Dotan Cohen wrote, on 2010-03-22 19:22:
>>>   As others have commented, you can use scp or sftp.
>>>
>>>   However, I can imagine that embedded might not have the
>>> sftp service or the scp executable.
>>>
>>>   If that's your case, you can always do:
>>>
>>> # cat file | ssh remote 'cat > destinaton'
>>  Pardon my replying to myself, but I've now seen a bunch of the
>> rest of the thread, and it seems to me that, if the set of commands
>> you want to do is repeatable, then maybe what you want is to do
>> most of the remote-system operations through SSH commands this way?
>>
>>  Someone else may have already suggested this, but something
>> like:
>>
>> # cat file.tgz | ssh remote 'cat > dest.tgz' (or scp, if available)
>> # ssh remote 'tar -xf dest.tgz'
>> # ssh remote 'sh dest/installer' (or whatever)
>> # ssh remote 'cat dest/install-log' > remote-install-log  (or whatever)
>>
>>  This way, you still only have the one shell, and/but you
>> pay the price in having to prefix all the remote operations
>> with "ssh remote".  However, you could script this on the
>> local system (which is, I think, why you want a single
>> session, right, so you can script it?), and then the extra
>> typing doesn't really cost you much.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the idea, Andrew, but I'm actually not scripting this.
> Right now I have two windows open: one for sftp and one for shell
> commands. I was hoping to save myself the trouble of switching
> windows, keeping the cd in sync, etc, with something that supports
> both sftp commands and ssh commands. I don't want to increase my
> workload by prefixing all the commands.
> 

I regularly use C-Kermit to do this kind of thing, but using telnetd-ssl 
on the target machine rather than sshd.

Have a look at:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html

To get a full range of features I download the source from the above 
site and do a:

make linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam

followed by

checkinstall make install

on Debian. (You need packages for checkinstall openssl, openssl-dev, 
zlib, but it builds easily)

An example of logging in to the remote machine, obtaining and building 
C-Kermit on that machine, then using C-Kermit to download the source 
tarball on that machine follows:

C-Kermit>telnet 192.168.1.101
  Trying 192.168.1.101... (OK)
  Negotiations........Authenticating with SSL

[TLS - AES256-SHA              SSLv3 Kx=RSA      Au=RSA  Enc=AES(256) 
Mac=SHA1
Compression: zlib compression
  (OK)
Password:
Last login: Mon Mar 22 18:19:12 CST 2010 from 192.168.1.100 on pts/0
Linux am64 2.6.32 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 18 15:44:10 CST 2010 x86_64

amarsh04@remote:~/kermit-src$ kermit
C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.02, 1 Feb 2010, for Linux+SSL
  Copyright (C) 1985, 2010,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/) C-Kermit>ftp ftp.columbia.edu
Connected to ftp.columbia.edu.
  Name (ftp.columbia.edu:amarsh04): anonymous
  Password:
Login successful.
Switching LOCUS for file-management commands to REMOTE (HELP LOCUS for 
info).
Remote system type is UNIX.
Default transfer mode is BINARY
(/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/) C-Kermit>cd kermit/test/tar
Directory successfully changed.
(/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/) C-Kermit>get x26.tar.gz
(/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/) C-Kermit>q
Goodbye.
amarsh04@remote:~/kermit-src$ gzip -dc x26.tar.gz|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0

then edited the makefile to change prefix to /usr and manroot to 
$(prefix)/share

then ran:

make linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam
checkinstall make install

To move the x.26.tar.gz file to the local machine I ran:

amarsh04@remote:~/kermit-src$ kermit -s x26.tar.gz
Return to your local Kermit and give a RECEIVE command.

KERMIT READY TO SEND...
  SENT: [/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/x26.tar.gz] To: 
[/home/amarsh04/kermit-src/x26.tar.gz] (OK)

C-Kermit does telnet client including with ssl and other 
encryption/authentication options, SSH client using an external ssh 
program, ftp client, and kermit client and server.

C-Kermit is worth a look at and an investment in some time learning how 
to use it.

Arthur.

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Hi, on C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.03, 19 Mar 2010, for Linux+SSL (64-bit)
built on Debian on AMD64 using "make linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam"

I get:

C-Kermit>ftp ftp.columbia.edu
ftp: connect: Network is unreachable
?Can't FTP connect to ftp.columbia.edu:ftp

but from i386 I get:

$ kermit
C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.03, 19 Mar 2010, for Linux+SSL
  Copyright (C) 1985, 2010,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/usr/src/sound/) C-Kermit>ftp ftp.columbia.edu
Connected to ftp.columbia.edu.
  Name (ftp.columbia.edu:amarsh04): anonymous
  Password:
Login successful.
Switching LOCUS for file-management commands to REMOTE (HELP LOCUS for 
info).
Remote system type is UNIX.
Default transfer mode is BINARY
(/usr/src/sound/) C-Kermit>

How should I start to debug this?

Arthur.

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On 2010-03-22, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
: Hi, on C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.03, 19 Mar 2010, for Linux+SSL (64-bit)
: built on Debian on AMD64 using "make linux+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam"
:
: I get:
:
: C-Kermit>ftp ftp.columbia.edu
: ftp: connect: Network is unreachable
: ?Can't FTP connect to ftp.columbia.edu:ftp
:
: but from i386 [it works]
:
Thanks for noticing, I verified this locally.  Kermit FTP from RHEL5 
on i386 works OK, but on 64-bit hardware (ia64 in this case) it doesn't
work.  That's what Alpha tests are for!

: How should I start to debug this?
:
If you're up for taking a look at the ftp_hookup() function
in ckcftp.c, the offending statement is:

 connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&hisctladdr, sizeof (hisctladdr))

around line 14715.  Clearly something is amiss with the definition
or setup of the structs in this case.  In fact, now that you mention
it, I see that the same thing happens on Mac OS X 10.6.2, also 64-bit.

I'll try to get to it pretty soon, but I have a huge backlog so "soon" 
might be a few weeks; if anybody wants to pitch in before that, be
my guest!

- Frank

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On 2010-03-22, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:
: Dotan Cohen wrote, on 2010-03-22 19:22:
:
(a lot of stuff about transferring files over SSH in the console)

To put it simply, nothing could be easier than Kermit.  I have an SSH
connection (from Windows, using Kermit 95, or from Unix using Kermit)
to a Unix shell session.  Some of us still prefer to work this way;
we get more done :-)

The Unix host has C-Kermit stored as "kermit" in a directory that's
in the path.  In my ~/.bashrc I have:

  alias s="kermit -Ys"
  alias g="kermit -Yg"

Any time I want to send a file from the host to my desktop I just
say "s xxx", where xxx is the name of the I want to send; it can also
contain wildcards to send multiple files a once.

Any time I want to retrieve a file from my desktop and put it on the Unix
host, I say "g xxx" -- same deal, except this time you have to be slightly
careful about wildcards because they are not (normally) to interpreted
on the Unix host, but rather on the desktop system.

What happens next, in both cases, is that the file or files is/are
transferred, poof.  That's the whole thing, no more commands, no escaping back
and reconnecting, no complicated config files, no repitious and redundant
authentication.  The files go over the connection you already have.

It doesn't matter if the files are text or binary, even if the two systems
differ as to file formats (e.g. Windows / Linux / VMS); Kermit chooses the
correct transfer mode for each file automatically.

Of course there are options if you want to get fancy, e.g.:

 . Only transfer files that are newer than the counterparts on the other end.
 . Convert character sets of text files appropriately (e.g. 8859-1 / UTF-8).
 . Recover a partial transfer from the point of failure (binary mode only).

- Frank

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On Mar 22, 9:14=A0am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
>  I see that the same thing happens on Mac OS X 10.6.2, also 64-bit.


It works for me. I just built

C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.03, 19 Mar 2010, for Mac OS X 10.6.2

with 'make macosx'. This is OS X 10.6.2 on an early Intel iMac
(Processor 2 GHz Intel Core Duo according to 'About This Mac')

$ uname -a
Darwin Macintosh-2.local 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov
3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

And ftp seems to work fine. I know this is OT for this group, but I
had understood that all Intel iMacs had 64-bit hardware, but that 64-
bit mode was not supported before 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Thus, an intel
iMac with OS X 10.6.2 should be a 64-bit machine, but the fact that
ftp is working and uname reports i386 architecture indicates it is
not, so am I confused or what?

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On 2010-03-23, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
: On Mar 22, 9:14 am, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:
:>  I see that the same thing happens on Mac OS X 10.6.2, also 64-bit.
:
: It works for me. I just built
:
: C-Kermit 9.0.299 Alpha.03, 19 Mar 2010, for Mac OS X 10.6.2
:
: with 'make macosx'. This is OS X 10.6.2 on an early Intel iMac
: (Processor 2 GHz Intel Core Duo according to 'About This Mac')
:
: $ uname -a
: Darwin Macintosh-2.local 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov
: 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
:
: And ftp seems to work fine. I know this is OT for this group, but I
: had understood that all Intel iMacs had 64-bit hardware, but that 64-
: bit mode was not supported before 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Thus, an intel
: iMac with OS X 10.6.2 should be a 64-bit machine, but the fact that
: ftp is working and uname reports i386 architecture indicates it is
: not, so am I confused or what?
:
I am too; I gave up trying to keep up with Intel incarnations a while
ago when they were described only in marketing, rather than technical,
terms.  For machine type, uname and uname() rely on the OS maker making
the appropriate determination.  Kermit decides whether it's 64-bit by
doing some sizeof()'s (e.g., of off_t and/or long).

I haven't had time to look into the problem yet, but I do notice that
on a 64-bit machine that fails to make an FTP connection (for me and
Arthur, at least), I can still make a Telnet connection, so when I get
a chance I'll see what's different about the Telnet and FTP code that
sets up the connect() call.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Mon Mar 29 16:30:52 2010
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This one just has a quick fix for the 64-bit Unix FTP problem:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html
  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckdaily.html

- Frank

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A few minor fixes, plus some new functionality described here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/weblog.html

- Frank

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I really like K-95, but only care about its terminal emulation which
is flawless.

I just installed the latest Linux (as a server), it comes with an
updated SSH daemon but it seems that Kermit 95 cannot handle it. There
is some problem with compression, at least.

Meanwhile PuTTY (whose interface sucks) has never had any problem with
the SSH aspect.

TIA,

-Ramon

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On Jul 10, 2:33=A0pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:
> I really like K-95, but only care about its terminal emulation which
> is flawless.
>
> I just installed the latest Linux (as a server), it comes with an
> updated SSH daemon but it seems that Kermit 95 cannot handle it. There
> is some problem with compression, at least.
>
> Meanwhile PuTTY (whose interface sucks) has never had any problem with
> the SSH aspect.
>
> TIA,
>
> -Ramon


These are the error messages when I try to open a session from my
Windows XP client to my Linux server:

"no matching comp found: client zlib server none,zlib@openssh.com
login failed"

I looked around K95's configuration and fixed the above problem by
disabling data compression.

After that, I am facing this obstacle:

"Password authentication is disabled to avoid trojan horses"

Meanwhile PuTTY connects without a problem.  :-(

TIA,

-Ramon


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On Jul 10, 2:47=A0pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2:33=A0pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:
>
> > I really like K-95, but only care about its terminal emulation which
> > is flawless.
>
> > I just installed the latest Linux (as a server), it comes with an
> > updated SSH daemon but it seems that Kermit 95 cannot handle it. There
> > is some problem with compression, at least.
>
> > Meanwhile PuTTY (whose interface sucks) has never had any problem with
> > the SSH aspect.
>
> > TIA,
>
> > -Ramon
>
> These are the error messages when I try to open a session from my
> Windows XP client to my Linux server:
>
> "no matching comp found: client zlib server none,z...@openssh.com
> login failed"
>
> I looked around K95's configuration and fixed the above problem by
> disabling data compression.
>
> After that, I am facing this obstacle:
>
> "Password authentication is disabled to avoid trojan horses"
>
> Meanwhile PuTTY connects without a problem. =A0:-(
>
> TIA,
>
> -Ramon

I fixed my problem, by emptying the 'known_hosts' file.

I am a happy camper again.

Long live Kermit!  :-)

-RFH


From fdc@panix.com Thu Aug  5 16:58:05 2010
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Is Kermit 95 an EOL product?
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:56:17 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2010-07-10, Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> wrote:
:
: I really like K-95, but only care about its terminal emulation which
: is flawless.
:
: I just installed the latest Linux (as a server), it comes with an
: updated SSH daemon but it seems that Kermit 95 cannot handle it. There
: is some problem with compression, at least.
:
: Meanwhile PuTTY (whose interface sucks) has never had any problem with
: the SSH aspect.
:
Sorry for the delay in replying, and I realize you're already a happy
camper again but for the record, SSH changed after the last release of
K95.  You have to disable SSH compression.  You can put SET SSH COMPRESSION
OFF in your K95CUSTOM.INI file.  This and many other tricks and workarounds
for adapting K95 to the ever-changing landscape can be found in the K95 FAQ:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/k95faq.html

- Frank

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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.07
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C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.07 is available now for testing at:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Fri Jun 17 12:00:24 2011
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Announcing C-Kermit 9.0 Beta.01
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This is the first version of C-Kermit published under
an Open Source license: the Simplified 3-Clause BSD license
(the previous test version, Alpha.09, had the old "non-free"
license).  Beta.01 has some new features, including a 
strenghened version of the Kermit file transfer protocol
and a new (but backwards-compatible) simplified way of
using variables in scripts.  It's been built and somewhat
tested on more than 50 different platforms.  You can read
about it and download it here:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ck90.html

Send success/failure reports and/or patches to:

  kermit@columbia.edu.

Thanks.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Fri Jun 17 12:00:33 2011
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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
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Subject: Announcing Open Source E-Kermit
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Embedded Kermit was released as Open Source on March
30, 2011, as version 1.6:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html

Version 1.7 is being released today together with
C-Kermit 9.0 Beta.01, the first two Kermit programs
to embody a strengthened form of the Kermit protocol
called "Force-3", which is explained here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html#force3

that works only between Kermit programs (such as
these two) that support it.  The primary application
is in the storm-tracking ocean-monitoring floats
described here:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/em-apex.html

Also in connection with this project, there is an
entirely new Embedded Program, also Open Source,
called EKSW, found on the page as regular E-Kermit:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html

which implements true sliding windows transport with
selective repeat (but as yet, not Force-3).  Also
available on this page is a new protocol stress
testing program called SIMIRID, which was used in the
development and test of all the above.

Thanks to John Dunlap of the Applied Physics
Laboratory of the University of Washington for
SIMIRID and EKSW, and for the suggestion for the
Force-3 protocol extension.

- Frank

From fdc@panix.com Tue Jun 28 13:31:13 2011
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C-Kermit 9.0 is released, open source, ready to go:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html

- Frank

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On Jun 28, 12:30 pm, Frank da Cruz <f...@panix.com> wrote:

>  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html

To avoid the %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH1 complaints from ck_ssl.c, add
two (harmless) type casts:

gdiff ck_ssl.c_orig ck_ssl.c
2460c2460
<                 if (strlen(gen->d.ia5->data) != gen->d.ia5->length)
{
---
>                 if (strlen((char *)gen->d.ia5->data) != gen->d.ia5->length) {
2773c2773
<                 if (strlen(gen->d.ia5->data) != gen->d.ia5->length)
{
---
>                 if (strlen((char *)gen->d.ia5->data) != gen->d.ia5->length) {


   My build command:
@ CKVKER.COM S D "CK_SSL"

From fdc@panix.com Mon Jul 11 15:25:24 2011
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After C-Kermit 9.0.300 was released, a problem surfaced in the
Solaris 10 and 11 builds, namely that DNS lookups didn't work,
even though they did work in Solaris 9 and earlier.  This is
fixed in C-Kermit 9.0.301:

  http://kermit.columbia.edu/ckermit.html

- Frank

