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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1433
Total number of notes:10312

892.0. "Knee-deep (in KERMIT)" by BIRMVX::LANE (Engineerus Digitalis) Sat Jun 09 1990 20:38

    Help!!!!!!!!
    
    	The lack of speed in Kermit is driving me crazy. Could someone
    please explain how to use STRANSF and/or XMODEM (delete where
    applicable) to transfer .ARC and other files.
    
    		A thousand thanks...
    
    
    			Roger.
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892.1an ST in the office runs at 19200NORGE::CHADMon Jun 11 1990 13:3211
The download topic explains these things or points to where they are explained.

BTW, I got the C-Kermit talked about in the PC conference for the VAX.  This
kermit handles 1000 and 2000 byte/block transfers (1000 VAX-ST and 2000 ST-VAX
[or is it the other way around, I forget]) and when used with Uniterm with block
size set accordingly it is quite quick (you get about 8 times the data sent for
each block of overhead).

STRANSF is also very quick.

Chad
892.2Getting started wtih WhackPRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaMon Jun 11 1990 14:3063
What/Stransf is discussed in topic 3.

Essentially, to start using STRANSF, you do is the following:

1 - Download PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]WHACK.PRG to the ST.  Also
copy PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]STRANSF.* to your own directory,
but don't download it.

2 - Check your VMS system to be sure SSU installed.  (Do a SHOW DEV TD. 
If you don't have any, it's not installed.)

If SSU is not installed on your VMS system, tell your system manager
that the optimal use of the VT330 and VT420 terminals requires that he
install VAX SSU, which kit can be obtained from
HANNAH::DISK$YURT:[KITS.SSU]SSU011.A. (There is also a SSU012.A kit in
that directory, but I'm still using 1.1.) To be really useful, SSU
requires that VTA's be enabled by default, which means SYSGEN
parameters of:

	TTY_DEFCHAR2=135170

And the following in SYSTARTUP_V5.COM:

SYSGEN := $SYSGEN
$ SYSGEN CONNECT VTA0/NOADAPT/DRIVER=TTDRIVER

This is all explained in the installation instructions for VAX SSU. 
This is a bone-fide DEC software product, from terminals engineering,
not a "hack" of any kind, but honest DEC software that every VAX in DEC
really should have installed.  (You don't have to tell your system
manager that this is for your ST.)

3 - If SSU is installed, then run WHACK.PRG, you'll get a VT220 window. 
It defaults to 2400 baud.  If you use something different, change the
baud rate in the comm. menu and save the settings with the global
settings menu.

4 - Log in, and say to VMS:

	$ MCR SSU ENABLE

The windowheader shoudl turn into "Session 1" from "Session 0".

5 - Install STRANSF as a foreign command:

	$ STRANSF :== $SYS$LOGIN:STRANSF.EXE

This should be in your LOGIN.COM so you don't have to do it by hand all
the time.

6 - Now you can transfer files:

	$ STRANSF GET vms-file st-file

downloads from VMS to ST.

	$ STRANSF PUT st-file vms-file

uploads from ST to VMS.

Note that STRANSF requires that binary files have the "kermit-like" file
attributes of variable-length maximum 510-byte records, which you can
get using CVTARC.   Read PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]XFERINTRO.TXT.