Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!yosemite!elliott From: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Kermit 3.83 Keywords: kermit, interrupts Message-ID: <11526@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 14 Jul 88 14:16:36 GMT References: <334@unocss.UUCP> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@crd.ge.com (Jim Elliott) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 49 In article <334@unocss.UUCP> tucker@unocss.UUCP (Greg Tucker) writes: >1. Does Kermit 3.83 support interrupts? ... > How come the author(s) chose to use the "flow" scheme with each line > feed, rather than just support interrupts like "ordinary" software. ... >If it helps any, I have an unenhanced //e with Applied Engineering's >super serial compatible serial card. > ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > Gregory A. Tucker- Consultant | Internet: conslt05%zeus.dnet@fergvax.unl.edu > Campus Computing | Bitnet: CONSLT05@UNOMA1 > Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!tucker Even software that uses interrupts can run into problems on an unenhanced //e if it tries to use the firmware screen routines. They turn off interrupts for huge amounts of time during scrolling. (As many people on this network have pointed out to me, some more vivdly than othes... :^) If what you want is good vt100 emulation for your unenhanced //e, that works at high baud rates, you might want to try ATP-Pro, a ShareWare terminal emulator which I wrote. It supports VT100 completely (as far as the Apple hardware allows; ie, no 132 columns, etc.) as well as several other terminal types, has sophisticated macros and windows, special-function segments, and online documentation. And it avoids the problem that Kermit runs into since it does not use the firmware screen routines. You'll still want to use Kermit for file transfer (at least for the moment). But when it comes to emulation, ATP is really nice. (It works great on the enhanced //e and the //c as well, and the Pascal1.1 mode supports the //gs except for the more esoteric ATP features. I'm working on a //gs driver.) I have been posting copies around the net (one is trying to trickle its way through comp.binaries.apple2 right now). If you can find one, try it out! If you want to order a registered copy directly from me, send $15 (NY state residents add 7% sales tax) to: Jim Elliott 2214 12th St. Troy, NY 12180-2940 . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .