Path: news.uiowa.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.uoregon.edu!cie-2.uoregon.edu!nparker From: nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.comm Subject: Re: Kermit for Apple //e|//c Date: 13 Oct 1995 02:19:31 GMT Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange Lines: 47 Message-ID: <45kibj$5gp@pith.uoregon.edu> References: <45k46f$ilp@hprcl192.mayfield.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cie-2.uoregon.edu In article <45k46f$ilp@hprcl192.mayfield.hp.com> Jim McCauley writes: >Lucky me. I get to help recycle a high school's Apples by rigging >them as serial terminals for a Pentium box running Linux. > >I figure that the cheapest software for this purpose would be Kermit >for the Apple //, which as I recall had a pretty durn good VT-100 >emulator built-in. There was some magic involved in getting the bits >in the right place -- I seem to recall that the program was distributed >as a compressed disk image, and some bootstrapping utility was required >to drag the thing through a serial port and write it to disk... > >I did this a long time ago (8 years gone by), and I can't recall all >the tricks, nor do I know where a current Apple Kermit might be found. >Help, anyone? The official FTP site for Kermit is kermit.columbia.edu. The Apple II version can be found in the directory /kermit/a. In order to download Kermit, you'll need some way to get a text file from your service provider onto your Apple II. If you don't already have some kind of terminal software on your Apple II, you may be able to write a little BASIC and/or machine-language routine that does the job (it doesn't need to do much--just read lines from the serial port one line at a time, and write them to a disk file). If you're using DOS 3.3, the files you want are "app387.1" and "app387.2". Put both of them on a freshly-INITed disk, type "EXEC APP387.1", and wait while it builds Kermit for you. If you're using ProDOS, the file you want is "apppro.bns". This is a BinSCII'd Shrinkit archive, so you'll need the BINSCII and SHRINKIT programs to decode it. Both of these programs can be found on the major Apple II FTP sites. The archive unpacks to a disk full of files and a configuration program that you need to run. If you don't already have any terminal software, and you don't have the expertise to write a text-file-capture routine, you might want to post here again and ask if someone would be willing to send you a disk by snail-mail. - Neil Parker -- Neil Parker | No cute quote, no cute ASCII art, no cute nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu | disclaimer, no deposit, no return.... nparker@cie.uoregon.edu | (This space intentionally left blank: http://cie-2.uoregon.edu/~nparker | )