Date: 9 July 1984, 13:18:27 CST From: SYSRONR at UCHIVM1 To: DFTCU at CUVMA Subject: Kermit for MVS/TSO I have completed a version of Kermit for MVS/TSO. I have been able to test it out in our environment, but I have not tested it on a raw TCAM. In our environment we are using a mod to the 3705 to make everything look like a 2741. This means that everything is translated from ASCII to 2741 code to EBCDIC before it reaches KERMIT. It also supplies XON codes when the host has put up a read. It is my belief that normal TCAM will handle ASCII to EBCDIC translation just fine, and I believe that TCAM will also supply XON codes when it has a read up. However, I have been unable to gen a TCAM here with raw Teletype 33-35 support to test it out. If you wish I will sendfile you the the following pieces. IBMKERM ASSEMBLE IBMDYNA ASSEMBLE IBMKERM DOC I would like to put in a word for adding support to all of the micro KERMITs for the SET START-OF-HEADER command. In our MVS/TSO environment the host cannot receive a CNTRL-A. We have therefore added the SET START-OF-HEADER command to the IBM-PC version and to the APPLE II version. Ron Rusnak [Ed. - Chicago's MVS/TSO Kermit will be announced as soon as it arrives. The forthcoming release of MS-DOS Kermit will have commands to changes the packet-start character.] --------------------------------- Date: Wed 18 Jul 84 18:21:15-EDT From: Frank da Cruz Subject: New Kermit for IBM MVS/TSO To: Info-Kermit@CUCS20 Announcing Kermit for MVS/TSO on IBM 370-series and compatible mainframes from Ron Rusnak of the University of Chicago Computation Center (SYSRONR@UCHIVM1.BITNET or SYSTEMS.RON@UCHICAGO.MAILNET). This is an adaptation of Columbia's VM/CMS implementation, and it has about the same characteristics -- a no-frills Kermit, no server operation, no binary file transfers, and so forth. The source and documentation files are in KER:TSO*.* (4 files). The CMS and TSO versions of Kermit will be upgraded to a more advanced level in the future. ------------------------------ Date: 29 October 1984, 11:58:30 CST From: ("Ron Rusnak (312) 962-7607") SYSRONR at UCHIVM1 To: SY.FDC at CU20B.BITNET Subject: Re: Problem with TSO Kermit I'm the guy unfortunately. The problem that this guy is having is probably related to either his terminal handler (TCAM or VTAM or whatever), or the translate tables. As far as, I know the only complaints I have heard come from folks who have ASCII translate tables. It is neccessary that TPUT control send all ASCII characters. Given what this person said, I would suspect something wierd with whatever acess method they're using. ------------------------------ Date: Mon 20 May 85 16:26:52-EDT From: Frank da Cruz Subject: Converting New VM/CMS Kermit to MVS/TSO? To: Ron Rusnak Hi Ron -- Do you think anybody at U of Chicago will be working on TSO Kermit any time soon? Ideally, I think it would be good if the new CMS release (2.00, which has server mode, binary file transfer, CRC's, etc) could have TSO support added to it in such a way that either TSO or CMS Kermit could be built from it. I don't know much about IBM assembler, but I would hope that this would be possible using macros or conditional assembly for the system- dependent parts. This would simplify life a lot for both of us, not to mention the hundreds of sites that are running TSO &/or CMS Kermit, allowing each to benefit immediately from improvements in the system-independent areas. What do you think? - Frank [Ed. - I never got a reply to this, but maybe someone else who might be interested in TSO Kermit -- U. of Toronto, maybe? -- would be willing to take on the task.] ------------------------------