From: hedrick@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: Re: new ka9q ready Date: 29 May 1992 05:18:58 GMT
cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) writes:
>In the documentation that cam with the first version of KA9Q I got for
>LINUX, it was mentioned that KA9Q for LINUX was a port of a rather
>old version of KA9Q. It doesn't support all of the commands and
>options that the latest DOS version does. In particular, does this
>version of KA9Q support the TIP command? I find it useful to establish
>the initial modem link via TIP (and then reset the TIP session) ever since
>kermit started dropping DTR (or is that LINUX doing it when kermit
>finishes executing?) and causing the modem to disconnect. Come to think of
>it, KERMIT is doing the same thing for me under DOS as well (which is
>why I want to be able to use TIP under KA9Q).
I don't have a TIP command. In my view it makes more sense to use
Kermit. Kermit has good scripting and dialing facilities, so you can
set it up to dial for you. I'd rather not put that all into KA9Q. I
don't have any trouble with Kermit hanging up my phone. I've never
seen it on the DOS version. I do recall having to modify it on some
other version of Unix to have a command that would exit without
dropping DTR, but I haven't seen the problem with Linux. I'd rather
see Kermit fixed so it can exit without dropping DTR, rather than
duplicating Kermit's functionality within KA9Q.