[Coco] KA9Q?!?!?! WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME ???

[David Hazelton]

A long time ago, I used KA9Q on the CoCo to do FTP file transfers 
between a Windows95 machine and CoCo using the RS232 pack.  I continued 
to do the same on the AT306.  I don't remember much, but I read an 
article about getting an amiga to network to windows95 serial 
networking.  Windows95 used slip and kept sending something like HOST as 
login, expecting GUEST or something like that to sync up.  My CoCo 
script just repeated the key word over and over again until SLIP was 
up.  The I could ftp  IIRC.

~David Hazelton





Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:53, Leon Howell wrote:
>   
>> I was looking for something else and found an OS-9 faq with a question
>> about TCP/IP. I was curious, so I clicked on that question. It mentioned
>> a program called KA9Q that was on rtsi. Expecting it to be for osk, I
>> looked anyway, and found it in the real OS-9 (6809) section, with a
>> readme saying it's a tcp/ip communications program for OS-9/6809.
>>
>> I've been sitting here using public access computers (how embarasing!)
>> for years and how long has KA9Q been available?
>>     
>
> Many many years, Leon.  And I, like quite a few others I think, have spent 
> weeks trying to get it to work, but the near total lack of docs rendered 
> any efforts I made moot.  If it did try to connect, then it was frozen 
> solid.  Its possible that someone intimately familiar with tcp/ip stuffs 
> could walk around in that code and fix it, but sadly I had zero luck as 
> its virtually commentless.
>
>