HP-150 Kermit 2.31 Notes, July 1988... MS-DOS Kermit 2.31 was tested successfully on an old HP-150 with DOS 2.01. It works at least as well as earlier versions did, i.e. it barely keeps up at 4800 baud. Recommended terminal settings (via the HP-150's built-in setup mode -- push User/System, then push F8 "config keys", then F3 "port1 config"): Baud Rate: 4800 or lower. 9600 will hang the machine. Parity: none (let Kermit handle parity in software, use SET PARITY command) Data bits: 8 Clock: INT Asterisk: Off Stop bits: 1 EnqAck: No Check Parity: No Flow control: Xon/Xoff if the remote system supports it. None otherwise, but use a lower speed, like 2400 or 1200. You must also use None when using EMACS. Others: No, or experiment. ------------------------------ Date: 17 March 89, 09:09:10 CET From: ODAE@ds0rus1i Subject: MS-DOS Kermit for HP150 and IBM PC(clones) We received the new Kermit implementation for IBM-PC compatibles and for the HP150 on March 14th 1989 as files MSVIBM.BOO and MSVHP1.BOO - thank you! With the version for the HP150 we have one problem: normally our line to the host computer HP3000 is working with enquire/acknowledge handshake - but I found no choice in the Kermit help to handle this protocol. Kermit automatically overwrites the port configuration with xon/xoff handshake and does not reset it on leave. Even more confusing: The port configuration menu shows still 'enq/ack' - handshake, which is no longer valid. It can only be reset to 'enq/ack' by pressing the 'save configuration' soft key. In the actually distributed version for IBM PC (-clones) MSVIBM.BOO the 'script' commands like 'output', 'input' etc. seem not to be implemented. Best wishes Klaus Thonke ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 17:20 MDT From: Joe Doupnik Subject: HP150's First, the serial port for the 150 is touched at startup as are all the variants except the IBM PC. I had to do a fancy dance in the IBM version to keep the port pristine til needed and time did not allow doing a similar one for the variants. I'll look at the HP150 stuff regarding stx/etx. Script commands are missing comment. Klaus must have an old old version of Kermit. They are present and the task won't build without them. Checked the HP150 code. There is no such flow control as stx/etx or enq/ack in the code; never was to my knowledge. The only flow control choices are none and xon/xoff and those are maintained in the system independent parts of things. What's more, MS Kermit/HP150 does not even use the serial port hardware of the machine; it's basically Generic Kermit with pure DOS calls. Regards, Joe D. ------------------------------ [End of MSVHP1.BWR]