Date   : Sat, 17 Oct 1987 17:38:36 GMT
From   : poisson.usc.edu!mlinar@OBERON.USC.EDU (Mitch Mlinar)
Subject: Re: Wish, wish *** CP/M KERMIT ***

In article <4260002@hpirs.HP.COM> kerschen@hpirs.HP.COM (Karen Kerschen)
writes:
>
>Now, I find myself with a wondrously more reliable, nicer-to-use 
>HP series 150 type II, with two 3 1/2" micro-floppy disk drives, and MS-DOS 
>operating system to use at home.  You guessed it:  I'd like to transfer 
>all the material stored on my 8" diskettes onto my new system.
>
>So far, with the help of techie friends, I've succeeded in reading the 
>8" diskettes onto my HP screen, but not capturing the data onto the 3 1/2" 
>media.  I'm having my RS-232 cable and port checked to verify that the 
>protocols are compatible.  But once that's done, I'll need a CPM version 
>of **** KERMIT ***** to send the data files over the line 
>from CPMland to MS-DOSdom.
>

Hmmmm.  You may have trouble with this one.  I have KERMIT for the Kaypro
and Xerox, but it is not "nice"; KERMIT has all kinds of problems transmitting
any files with non-ASCII characters (such as found in unstripped WordStar,
dBase, Supercalc, etc.)

I would *strongly* suggest that you obtain Xtalk (Crosstalk) or some similiar
PD modem program (MEX?) which handles the XMODEM protocol for you HP150.
First of all, every system I come across these days supports it; second, with
the 1k packets, it blows away KERMIT for file transfers; third, it handles
*all* files.  If you don't have at least one modem program for your 8" CP/M,
I have at least 5 different flavors of it in source and object - just plop in
your driver.

Of course, I am presuming that you are going to use your HP150 to talk to
other systems.  In particular, if you are going to contact any BBSes, you will
need XMODEM support if you wish to upload/download any files - most BBSes do
NOT support KERMIT.

-Mitch

If *all* else fails, I also have the source to KERMIT in C buried around here
somewhere.