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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A directly connected Apple IIe
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Date: 31 May 88 18:39:28 GMT
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>I would like to bootstrap Kermit-65 onto an Apple IIe which is directly
>connected to a VAX/VMS system running Kermit-32 V3.3.111.  The
>documentation from Columbia gives directions for three different kinds
>of modems but says nothing of a directly connected machine.  Does
>anyone have any suggestions?  Could it be as simple as faking out the
>communications software by telling it that the modem is connected
>to the port that is actually the direct connect cable or is it more
>complicated than that?

A little more complicated.  The program needs to have the serial driver
installed that matches the address characteristics of the RS-232 port
you have you direct connect plugged into.  The //c and IIgs have
built in ports, the //e and 2+ have to have a serial card installed in
a slot.  The //c port is the same as the Super Serial Card (SSC) driver
AND it's likely that a SSC is what is installed in your //e (I hope so,
because many of the clone serial cards won't work well at 9600 or 19.2K).

Pop the top on the //e and make sure that microswitch SW2-6 is ON
(that enables interrupts and is necesary for Kermit to operate ok at
9600 baud).  IF you install the SSC driver and it works ok, then the
switch must be on.  If you insall the driver and nothing you types
appears on the screen and you get no response from your direct connect
line, then the switch is off.

I assume you have version 3.81 (the latest available from Columbia).
Once you have that working, email me and I'll send you version 3.83
which has some useful improvements.

If you haven't enhanced that //e, it will have some trouble with
character loss at 9600.  You can set the program for 4800 and that
should work ok (if your direct connect lines are like ours, they'll
autobaud detect).  Otherwise, get the //e enhancement kit and it'll
solve that problem.

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