7-Nov-85 21:19:26-EST,2000;000000000011 Return-Path: Received: from CSNET-RELAY.ARPA by CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU with TCP; Thu 7 Nov 85 21:19:22-EST Received: from ti-eg by csnet-relay.csnet id ah03140; 7 Nov 85 20:42 EST Date: Thu, 7 Nov 85 17:00 CDT From: Richard_Berke To: info-kermit%cu20b.columbia.edu@csnet-relay.arpa cc: rjbm%ti-eg@csnet-relay.arpa Subject: Trouble with latest KERMIT-CMS in PASCAL/VS I have tried the new PASCAL/VS KERMIT/CMS version mentioned in Info-Kermit Vol3:No28 of Fri Nov 1, 1985. My micro kermit is KERMIT-MS 2.28 running on a TIPC, with MS-DOS 2.13. Though I am eager to use KERMIT-CMS' features, I have had troubles: Problems so far: The DIRectory command for remote execution fails entirely. The micro gets a message that "... ? unable to receive data." and the VM KERMIT is trying to display the listing of the files to the VM screen, even though it is in server mode. The VM KERMIT gets further stuck when trying to process the VM wild card (ie. * EXEC *), and it takes CTRL-T, then EXT, then HX to get out of it's loop. This completely aborts the program. The REMOTE TYPE command has a character translation error: the capital Y is somehow wrong, and appears on the TIPC as a down arrow. The documentation I have on the TIPC says that is somehow a CTRL-Y (decimal 25 ascii) representation. It's annoying, but not damaging. The a-to-e xlation table in the PASCAL source file looks fine, as does the e-to-a. Binary files bomb on transmission, and there is no SET FILE TYPE command on this version. On the CMS 2.0 ASSEMBLE version, SET FILE BINARY does allow binary files to transfer safely. I was too chicken to try out a REMOTE ERASE (another new feature of this version.) For what it's worth, those are my results. I'm not enough of a programmer to be able to fix what's there. Regards, Richard Berke Texas Instruments 214/462-5918 11-Nov-85 13:21:20-EST,1571;000000000011 Received: from CUVMA by CU20B with HASP; 11 Nov 85 13:21:02 EST Received: from QUCDN(MAILER) by CUVMA (Mailer X1.21) id 5763; Mon, 11 Nov 85 13:18:39 EST Received: by QUCDN (Mailer X1.21) id 8193; Mon, 11 Nov 85 13:19:20 EST Date: Mon, 11 Nov 85 13:17 EST From: VIC@QUCDN To: sy.fdc@cu20b Subject: PASCALVS Kermit/CMS This is a note I sent to Richard Berke regarding his problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I checked out the problems you discribed using both the assembler version from Columbia KERMIT-MS and our own Turbo pascal KERMIT-QK with the PASCALVS KERMIT/CMS. I also tested it going via a SERIES/1 and via COMTEN. The problem with REMOTE DIR command maybe just that the terminal LINESIZE setting may not have gotten set to the proper length. The system default for linemode terminals is 72. This must be set to some value larger than 80 inorder for the REMOTE DIR command to work. Our version of KERMIT/CMS has set this to 132, but an older version may not have set this or for some reason the command failed to set it. Do a CP QUERY TERM while in KERMIT/CMS command mode to verify the setting. 2. I was not able to get your remote TYPE problem. It sounds like a TI problem or a hardware failure. My Capital Ys are OK. 3. To transfer Binary Files with PASCALVS KERMIT/CMS, simply turn the TRANSLATION off. " SET TRANS OFF ". Binary files will be stored as variable length records. The largest record size is 32756 which is a FILEDEF restriction.