-=> Quoting Michel Samson to Sean Dennis <=-

 MS> Hi Sean,                                [Retrying my post of October
 MS> 19] 
 MS> About "Setting up Kermit protocol" of July 6 and
"Pure DOS TelNet
 MS> ZMoDem" of October 16:
 
 SD> Does anyone know if there's documentation about setting up the
 SD> Kermit protocol with TG?  ...I don't know how to write the PDF...
 MS> ...
 SD> ...wanting me to try to get Kermit running under my system again?
 MS> Should you feel comfortable with the idea of switching to `MSK.INI',
 MS> plug it in...  ...to bring our cooperation to completion...  The
 MS> last time i checked this, your `CKermit.INI' configuration-file
 MS> forced `C-Kermit' to load `CKerMod.INI' and the later was connecting
 MS> to ~COM1~!!!  ...you had urgent matters to cope with so i waited...
 SD> Under OS/2, using SIO/VMODEM, everything uses comports...  It's all
 SD> as if you're using a dialup BBS...  I am actually having a harder
 SD> time getting the configuration of TG/2's protocol setup rather than
 SD> getting Kermit to work.  For that, we should probably move this...


 MS> Here i am!  8^)  My 1st comment is that i DownLoaded
 MS> `TGProt11.ZIP' so that i can get an idea of what .PDFs are like. 
 MS> Essentially, it's the same problem as with `SynchroNet' when i asked
 MS> around on `DoveNet' for a listing of the BBS's internal variables which
 MS> can be used for installing external protocol drivers.  I'd need to
 MS> install `TeleGard' over here but i'd rather not;  if i were to do it,
 MS> i'd use Virtual Null-MoDem Cabling.

        TG allows PDFs aka Proteocol Defeinition Files to be imported
        with just one key stroke.  Its that easy.

 MS> In the meantime, lets identify some of the options and variables
 MS> if possible:  "-p", "~", "CP",
"-b", "CB", "-l", "CA",
"-n", "UF", "UL"
 MS> and "PF" -  which is only a sample of what XYZ.EXE' would
be using... 
 MS> To be honest, some or most of what is found in these .PDFs may very
 MS> well be specific to the protocol driver instead of your `TeleGard' BBS
 MS> SoftWare.

     Correct.  But that protecol package fixes all that and there
     is no worry to handle those parameters.  There are also
     FAQs.  But I assume from above your not running TG :<

 MS> In any case, i can't but notice the `DSZLog' Drop-File is
 MS> supported and hence i'm curious, all the sudden!  Is there a BBS
 MS> feature which can tell the user how fast his transfers have been over
 MS> the week (expressing the recorded results in cps, for example)?... 
 MS> `Kermit' would allow this should someone dare to try hard enough, i'd
 MS> love to see the `ZMoDem' and `Kermit' transfer rates displayed
 MS> Side-by-Side in a public BBS bulletin! 
 MS> 8^D

     Not sure how/why this would be useful.  But you could create
     a script in TG to do this using the data in the software
     like downloads and time online.  Might be a bit sketchy
     but it might work.  

 MS> An other `TG' feature which got my attention is `Transfer.LOG',
 MS> i'm most concerned because .QWK BBS doors must never UpDate
 MS> message-pointers unless the user really received his message-packet in
 MS> due form;  if this could help SysOps to benefit from `MS-Kermit's
 MS> sturdiness i'd be glad... 
 MS> Salutations,  ;^)

     So this is a wish list?  There is a transfer log generated by
     TG but its not seen by users.



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