Help!
I recently bought a modem(2400 baud) for my PC. I have never used one of these
before so its all been a learning experience. I have my mouse on COM1 and
my modem on COM2. I have used it to connect from my PC at home to our system
at work. The system at work uses Kermit for file transfers. Last week I
used Windows 3.1′s terminal package and successfully transferred a binary file
from work to home. A few days ago, I tried to transfer another file but this
time the Windows terminal gives me a message saying it can’t create the file,
check to see if I have enough disk space. It states the file(I assume the one
I am trying to transfer is NOT Read-Only and file name is valid.
I have also tried to do this outside of Windows with the DOS software
package (Bitcom) that came with the modem. It connects just fine and also
communicates with the computer at work just fine but times out when I try to
do file transfers.
I have had no luck trying to transfer either text or binary files. The
parameters for the computer at work are 7 bits, parity none and 1 stop bit.
I set the kermit parameters to packet-length = 94 and file type = binary.
I have no trouble creating files on my hard disk and I have tons of space.
Since I successfully transferred one file, and since I can hook up and
talk to the computer at work, I don’t think its a hardware problem. I suspect
I probably inadvertantly set some modem parameter or some system parameter but
I am clueless as to what I did, how to find it, or how to correct it. I did
reset the modem(it has nonvolitile ram) to its default settings but that didn’t
help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
