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

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Gene

Is the source code available or is just the binaries that would need disassembly?

One wouls have to pull the applicable RFCs to get the code even to a state where 
it is commented and usefull for modifications. 

james

On 31 Oct 2006 at 21:50, 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.
> 
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