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

[Joel Ewy]

I had it working with SLS Linux for a while eons ago.  Didn't do much
with it.  I remember wishing I had a serial board with a FIFO on the CoCo.

JCE

David Hazelton wrote:
> 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.
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> ~David Hazelton
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> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:53, Leon Howell wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>     
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>> 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.
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