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    Posted: May 08 2007 at 7:24am
Hi,
I don't think the answer I want is the answer anyone is going to give me, but it's worth a shot.  The only file transfer protocol our system (Pick) has is Kermit and it's pathetically slow.  I've found it's faster just to have it print the file to screen and have the emulator capture it or use an ASCII file download to receive it...and that seems to be reliable enough for my purposes.  What I want to know, though, is there any way to get around waiting for the timeout period at the end of an ASCII file transfer.  Is there a control character or something I can have the system print after it prints the file to tell the Accuterm file transfer that it's done?  I have to have the timeout pretty long (like 30 seconds) because our system is kind of slow sometimes and there might be a good long pause from time to time. 
 
Not as importantly, but I'm still curious, in Procomm, which I used to use, when you started an ASCII file transfer, it would send a <CR> to the host system to get it started.  Accuterm apparently doesn't do that, is there a way to change it?
 
Thanks for any help anyone can give me,
Brian
 
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Hi Brian -

Why not use AccuTerm's FT utility (or call the FTS subroutine)? You can specify ASCII as the file transfer protocol and all the handshaking is handled for you.

Beginning with AccuTerm 2K2 5.0e, AccuTerm's Kermit implementation can use larger packet sizes, sometimes with huge improvements in performance. If your host allows long INPUT lines, try setting the Maximum Packet Size to 2000 (must be less than max INPUT line length), and set the Source Buffer Index to the same (2000). To adjust the packet size, use the KERMIT command from TCL, then enter "C" to open the configuration screen.

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Pete

BTW: the EOF character used by AccuTerm's ASCII protocol is Ctrl+Z (which is CHAR(26)).
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Hi Pete,
 
Thanks for your help.  At the moment, we have issues with a slow system and an almost-full disk drive, so I haven't even installed any of AccuTerm's host utilities on it, which is why I'm plugging along with ASCII file transfers.  Hopefully that will change in the near future, but in the meantime, I'm just playing around with all of the AccuTerm features and came across this issue.  I will try the Ctrl-Z, that should  help a lot.
 
Thanks again,
Brian
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