List of known bugs or problems with C-Kermit under VAX/VMS: Version: 4D(0060) As of: 11:20am Tuesday, 6 May 1986 See CKUKER.BWR which lists problems with Unix Kermit. Many of these problems may also apply to VMS C-Kermit. This file lists only those that are unique to VMS C-Kermit. - The fact that VMS C-Kermit is built with CKU* files as well as CKC* and CKV* files is confusing. Well... It's that way because VAX-11 C does its best to provide a Unix programming environment -- to the extent it succeeds, VMX C-Kermit can use certain Unix-specific modules. - VMS C-Kermit, unlike Bliss Kermit, is NOT interruptible, either with ^C or ^Y. The latter can be interrupted by two (?) ^Ys. This is a serious shortcoming. (There is code whose intention is make the program interruptible, but it apparently does not work.) - VMS C-Kermit is less efficient than Bliss Kermit, and may require the use of lower baud rates when sending TO it. - If using LAT (Local Area Transport) terminal connections, you may need to use a lower baud rate when transferring from your "terminal" to the host, or a smaller send-packet length. Some LAT software doesn't expect "fast typing" from the terminal direction (applies mainly to old F11-based LAT boxes; newer DECserver-100s work fine with Kermit). - VMS VAX-11 C V2 allows DEFINEs by a command line qualifer, and CKVKER.COM makes use of this to include debugging and transaction logging code if it believes that VAX-C V2 is being used. VAX-C V1 had no such feature. If you want the DEBUG and TLOG symbols defined for use with VAX-C V1, modify the CKCDEB.H file. - The local "directory" command defaults to * rather than *.*. - Execution of local commands (C-Kermit>! ): The problem with "! XXX" in VMS is related to the BYTLM in user authorization file, as we discovered soon after we installed C-kermit on our system. For VMS to create a subprocess, the BYTLM must exceed 4096 (which is our previous setting), and of course, PRCLM must be at least 1. I don't know the exact minimum for BYTLM, but after we set it to 6144, it worked.