Date   : Sun, 09 Jun 1991 17:52:36 EDT
From   : Steve_Graham@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Qterm progress report

For all of you waiting with baited breath to hear if I got QTERM running on
my Kaypro II, the answer is, sort of.
 
At 2400 baud characters are dropped.  This also happens with several other
terminal programs (MEX, KERMIT, and a vt100 emulator that I'm using at the
moment), most notably in the third column.  There is one program, FASTTERM,
that avoids this problem on this machine at that speed, so it seems to be
possible.  If I turn on the "junk character trap" about half or more of the
incoming characters are missing.
 
vt100 emulation does not work at all.  All I get is a row of +++++ with some
incoming characters let through at random.  If you have any suggestions about
this I'd love to hear, because the vt100 ability is one of the things that most
strongly attracted me to QTERM in the first place.  I used the QT-KPRO patch
to set this up, by the way.
 
 
So far I haven't had time to look over the docs thoroughly.  I did note a
scrambled line in QTERM.DOC.  Near the bottom of the first page of printed
output are a couple of lines as follows:
 
"? -Print help - QTERM provides a brief synopsis of the available commands.
 
 a 3/10th second break.
 
 , - Hang up modem - "  (etc.)
Is this a typo, or have I yet again got a corrupted file (in which case all
bets are off anyway)?
 
One other thing: I have retrieved and downloaded the files twice from Simtel.
Using EXL to unpack them, there's a junk trailing character on the end
of the patch filenames, so QT-KPRO.Z becomes QT-KPRO.Z ' (except that the '
is the other way around--I don't know how to produce that character).  Is this
normal?
 
I've been having trouble ftp-ing files from Simtel.  The trend is that they
start sending ok, then slow down after about 30k has been sent, get slower,
slower, and finally timeout, sometimes after about an hour.  Anyone else
having trouble, or should I look to the local system?
 
--Steve Graham (sg2@ub.cc.umich.edu)


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