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1.) Kermit on the Amiga
I use Dave Wecker's VT100 program. This handles the kermit protocol.
You'll probably have to get this from someone on disk, unless
you have something (xmodem,kermit) to download it with.
I know theres a pointer to it in this conference.
2.) Kermit on the vax
Copy/(trivially)edit the .com/.exe files from my machine.
z::lispw$:[tenny.dcl]kermit.com
z::lispw$:[tenny.exe]kermit.exe
I use this combination all the time with 100% success.
Dave
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| As far as what I have used, Online, DBW's vt100 v2.*, Dave Wecker's
has been the absolute best vt100 emulator that i have run across.
plus his emulator does kermit protocol transfers. I have had no
trouble using it download/upload to vaxes, dec 20's and pdp-11's...
So in my opinion his is probably the best, and it is pd,
(shareware??)...
As to getting it to a machine in the first place, this problem was
originally solved by writing basic (yech!) programs to do file
transfers using
the xmodem checksum/crc protocols. Checksum is exceedingly simple.
The only problem is that amiga-dos expects images to be in a certain
format to use them..."The Hunking factor". Fortunately, programs
were made available called Fix-hunk or Fix-obj which would take
an xmodem'ed file and remove the padding. Both of these programs
were created and then modified to fit exactly in xmodem packets
without padding.
Also, there is a program called arc (it is available
for many machines. Arc preforms space compressions and other little
things to files, to be used for file-transfers and to keep data
integrity. The ARC exectuable also fits exactly in the xmodem-packets
so there is no padding and will execute. If you download an
arc'ed file using some protocol, and then de-arc the file, your
file will come out to the right length (ie: you don't have to use
fix-obj or fix-hunk et al). From my experience, 1.8 years with
the amiga, ARC is the preferred method for transfering files. ie:
ARC the file on one end, use your favorite (or available) file
transfer method, and then DE-ARC it on the other end.
order of operations,
get a hold of some basic program to do simple file transfers
(available on Compuserve (for sure), Plink (??), here (??)
and then use it to download arc, then download vt100. etc.
OR
if you live within 40 minutes of Wellesly, Ma. I would suggest going
to the Memory location to see what PD software, they have, a lot
of FISH disks (Fish Disks are collections of PD software or shareware
put togehter by a guy name FRED FISH...See the Comp_Sys_AMIGA
notesfile).
OR
Check to see what sort of PD disks the dealear has, any reasonable
dealer is always willing to trade and let customers copy PD software.
This doesn't really tell you how to get it from the VAX, but it
should give you some ideas... Just for curiousities sake, where
are you? It is quite possible that someone in your plant already
owns an amiga and could be willing to lend/copy for you a disk,
with telecom type software on it....Anyone?
brad
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