kermit bugs (?)

[Larry Colton]

All attempts to send mail to me...@nosc.mil have resulted in an
error message from on the nosc systems, so I will post below a
couple of comments on kermit382. Maybe other user can shed some
light on the problems.

The first appears to be a bug in the vt100 emulation in the way
kermit processes TABs. Specifically, multiple tabs, without
intervening text, will only move the cursor to the first tab stop.
A couple of examples (^I represents a TAB and X a text entry):

0123456789012345678901234567890
^I X^I X^I X (this works fine)
^I^I^I X (this is how kermit displays)
^I^I^I X (this is the correct display)

The second sounds like it may be fixed in the beta version that Murph
Sewall announced: I would like the EXit command to issue a ProDOS
quit command instead of leaving me in basic. I select kermit from
Prosel and would like to return there upon leaving kermit. Being
basically lazy, I don't want to have to exit with EXit then type BYE.

(Note to Ted Medin: please call back to the North San Diego Apple Club
BBS (619/571-9010). You have mail waiting for you. I would like to
determine why all my uucp mail to you errors when it gets to shark.)

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[Larry W. Virden]

interesting note on a problem that I have encountered. I am still using
3.81 (sorry murphy - am still trying to coordinate getting the new stuff
down to my machine...sigh). When I am getting output to the screen and
a ^G (bell) is encountered, I lose data. Note that I am running a IIgs
at fast speed with interrupts and with the modem buffer on.

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[Murph Sewall]

>interesting note on a problem that I have encountered. I am still using
>3.81 (sorry murphy - am still trying to coordinate getting the new stuff
>down to my machine...sigh). When I am getting output to the screen and
>a ^G (bell) is encountered, I lose data. Note that I am running a IIgs
>at fast speed with interrupts and with the modem buffer on.

Old problem. The standard GS "bell" causes that problem with all the
versions of Kermit (as far as I know). Grant Delaney sent several
alternate beeps/buzzes to APPLE2-L some time ago (at least one of which
fixes the problem). I'm also told it can be eliminated with Visibell
(sorry, I don't own a IIgs, so I'm just relying on <fallible> memory :-).

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