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Sindi wrote:

> I am able to use Kermit with ramdisk BL2 and I am dialed into my bbs with 
> it right now (and telnetted to another computer from there since I cannot 
> get the mail list mail at my usual bbs email address due to timeouts).
> 
> I copied kermit to /tmp after loading bl2.  If your computer has at least 
> 8M RAM there is an additional 4M of ramdisk created and kermit is only 2M 
> so it fit easily.  If you have only 4M RAM you are out of luck but minicom 
> is about 250K .tgz and you might be able to copy just the binary.

My computer, a P166, has 84 megabytes of RAM

I can't copy a two megabyte file from a floppy drive to my ramdrive 
because my floppy drive holds only up to 1.44 megabytes of data.

I have heard that there is a way to format a floppy drive for linux 
so that it can hold a lot more data than just 1.44 M.

I haven't yet learned how to copy stuff from my hard drive to my 
ramdrive.  I haven't yet even tried to learn how do that.  I'm 
afraid to try it without knowing what I'm doing.  I sure don't want
to mess up my hard drive.

> Kermit also telnets and ftps and does file transfers and fetches files 
> from the web and maybe other tricks as well. I use it to read Russian 
> online after loading a VGA screen font.  Type 'reset' after exiting kermit 
> or less won't display anything at all. 
> 
> kermit (you get a prompt)
> then, to dial:
> set line /dev/ttyS1           for com2
> set speed 115200              for a modem at least 28K
> dial 2345678                  the phone number
> 
> C to connect; Ctl-\, C to get back to kermit.
> 
> Or instead of dialing, type ftp or telnet and the URL to go to.

Thanks for the info.  I have heard that Kermit is a fine program.  I have 
never yet tried to run any version of it.

Sam Heywood 
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