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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Unix Kermit and 8-bit transfers
Summary: Unix Kermit will send 8-bit binary without quoting
Keywords: kermit,unix
Message-ID: <9053@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Dec 88 19:09:15 GMT
References: <1383@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <5616@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Kermit on Unix can do 8-bit binary transfers without having to use
quoting.  The trick is to log in using 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.
Put this in your .kermrc file in your home directory:

set file type binary
set block 3
set parity none

The "set block 3" command tells it to use the 3-byte CRC checking.  Make
sure you have your MS-Kermit set that way too.

Tell me why anyone would want to use Kermit on Unix when Zmodem (rz/sz
on the Unix end and DSZ on the PC end) is so much faster and provides
the ability to continue where you left off in an aborted download.

-- 
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.0.0.74]
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