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Do any of you have Kermit 3.15 running under Win95?  I would like to
escape from hyperterminal and go back to Kermit.  I had been using
3.13, but when I started it as a DOS program under w95 it failed
with an overflow divide error; I downloaded 3.15, and it appears to
run.  But the modem won't respond.  The port, address, IRQ are correct.
The "sho comm" command reports that the modem is ready (DSR and CTS both
on).  If I load hyperterminal while kermit is running (ah, multitasking)
it reports that another program is using the "telephony" device (where
did they that dream that term up).  The brand of modem hasn't changed,
although the new one is Plug'n'play (USRobotics 56K), and the initialization
string is the same as before.  But when I type AT I don't get "OK" back
from the modem; I tried ATZ to reset it, but that didn't help.  I see that
win95 with PNP treats the hardware differently:  it recognizes a modem
but not a COM2, though I did find a property sheet which admitted that the
modem was on COM2.  If I try running Kermit from the DOS F8 boot at
start up, it produces very weird results, and can't find the port at all.

Any suggestions?
                   Joel

Joel Lidov
jblqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian      | Classics
      Languages and Cultures           | The Graduate School,
Queens College, C.U.N.Y.               |    City University of New York