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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> Well, i'm now using MS-DOS Kermit for this purpose, and it doesn't
> have any problems... The only con is that there is no file transfer
> support except raw acii logging to file and Kermit protocol. Could you
> supply me with a list or a link to list of DOS comm programs which
> have X/Y/Zmodem support?

There is supposed to be a way to add zmodem support to Kermit - there are 
online man pages about this.  If you can't find the info you can write to 
their support person.  Maybe you can figure out how to use Kermit file 
transfer on this setup.  I could not.

> On 5/23/06, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> > Karolis Lyvens wrote:
> > > I'm trying to use an ancient laptop with BL3 as a serial console...
> > > But microcom does some weird thing:
> >
> > Microcom was not designed for this purpose.
> > I suggest you use minicom (from Slackware 4.0)
> > or a DOS com program.  Because of the popularity
> > of BBSs in the early 1990s, DOS com programs were
> > highly developed.  I use commo, but there are
> > several other excellent DOS com programs.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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