Date   : Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:45:45 GMT
From   : sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!daffy.cac.washington.edu!harold@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Harold Bobroff)
Subject: Getting Kermit onto Kaypro II

Greetings CP/M folks.  Having bashed my head against this for a while with
zero success, I now turn to you net.experts for advice.

I'm trying to bootstrap Kermit-80 4.11 (I think - it's the current stuff
from Columbia, at any rate) on a Kaypro II running CP/M 2.2 .

I've no file-transfer software for this beast at all, just a wretched
terminal program called TERM that sort of emulates an ADM 3A.  Following the
instructions in cpskerm.doc, I carefully typed into DDT the capture program
from the kermit distribution(cpkfet.ddt), saved it, logged into the Unix host
with the hex files, changing the prompt to '@' as expected by the program, and
entered 'cat cpskerm.hex' minus the CR.  I then exited TERM program and ran
the capture program, but (surprise) nothing happened, nothing at all.  No modem
activity whatsoever, which would seem to indicate that perhaps the program
isn't talking to the right device?  But that's just a wild guess, since I'm
almost completely CP/M clueless.  I believe IOBYTE is ok; at least I didn't
consciously do anything to modify it.

Alternatively, I could just type in all the .ASM sources and assemble it
myself, but ASM is the only assembler I've got, and apparently it won't cut
it for building Kermit.  No .ASM source for LASM is provided with the
Kermit stuff, only a .HEX, and I can't imagine trying to type that in.

So, I'm open to any and all suggestions(aside from converting the machine
into a doorstop, that is).  E-mail would probably be best, but posted replies
are fine.  Thanks much in advance!

   Harold                                      harold@u.washington.edu