Re: Modem/Kermit for IIC?

[zcaa1122@rpool4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer)]

In article <93May30.213234.19936@acs.ucalgary.ca> sbdocker@acs.ucalgary.ca (Sean Brendan Dockery) writes:
>In article <C7qv6w.4IF@world.std.com> pwilson@world.std.com (Pete
>Wilson) writes:
>
>Kermit-65 is capable of VT52 and VT100 emulations.  It's not much, but
>it is better than nothing.  :)

I never got Kermit terminal emulation to work right, and from the way
Kermit behaves (I have version 3.87) I doubt it could.
In general, Kermit uses both Basic and Pascal entries to the video firmware
which is major uncool and creates nasty effects. Also, when local echoing
is enabled, any non-printable character seems to be sent to the video
firmware when typed on the keyboard which leads to such things as MouseText
being switched on etc. Also, the cursor displayed and the cursor actually used
by the video routines get out of sync. Sometimes this even leads to trashing
off-screen memory.

I don't think my copy is broken. Kermit file transfers work (not perfectly
since they give MLI errors like "bad parameter count" and the like...), but
terminal emulation isn't usable for me.

All this is for //c's. I don't know how Kermit behaves on other machines.

I don't want to really complain about all this since Kermit is free, but maybe
someone knows how to solve these problems...?

- Wulf Hofbauer