Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ukma!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!w8sdz 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. Lines: 20 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] Arpa: W8SDZ@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz