Subj : Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit setup
To   : Mike Roberts
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Oct 12 2004 02:55 am

  Re: Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit setup
  By: Mike Roberts to Rob Swindell on Mon Oct 11 2004 11:56 pm

 >  RS> Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit setup   By: Michel Samson to Win-32 SysOps on
 >  RS> Tue Oct 05 2004 02:05 pm
 > 
 >  > A long time ago, the author of `SynchroNet' made me post a `Kermit'
 >  > configuration-file
 > 
 >  RS> I didn't "make" you do anything. Heck, I didn't even *ask* you to do
 >  RS> anything.
 > 
 >  > only to reject it on first sight, he prefered his own because it was
 >  > simpler and finally published that instead.  As a result, it's the
 >  > 2nd time this year i hear of some BBS where the SysOp failed to
 >  > obtain suitable `Kermit' support by using the `Kermit' setup released by
 >  > Rob Swindell!!!
 > 
 > Rob, mot being a wiseguy, but you blew me off. I had a big problem with the
 > Kermit protocol. I could download but could not accept uploads. Your
 > response was "well it works here!" I am not so sure it does, but I'll take
 > your word for it.

In all fairness, I can't fix something I can't reproduce. My experience has
been that if when uploading the transfer is aborted, the problem is the
settings on the "sending" side (the client, not the BBS).

HyperTerminal uploads just fine to both Synchronet-Win32 and Synchronet-Unix
settings given in docs/kermit.txt. Perhaps you were having problems with some
*other* client? And on which BBS, I don't know.

 > But I do know that Michels setup did work with synchronet.
 > In both uploads and downloads. Just passing it on as I found that many
 > running the basic synchronet protocol as set up in sync as from the website,
 > could indeed allow a user to download a file, but upload was a different
 > thing. He does have a point. I will give Michel credit, he got kermit workin
 > here. most sysops I asked for help discovered, indeed the kermit protocol di
 > not work on there systems/ Just one way, for whatever it is worth.

That's great. If Michael would remove all the extraneous kruft from his
configuration file, basically high-lighting the exact settings that are
different from mine that are required for "success", I'd be happy to integrate
them.

If there's any functional difference between to the 2 configuration files
(which I've not been able to determine), it's probably 1, maybe 2 settings at
most. The remaining hundred or so lines in Michael's configuration file have
nothing to do with transfering files.

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