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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:29, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>Gene
>
>Is the source code available or is just the binaries that would need
> disassembly?
>
The last time I looked, and thats been quite a while James so I could be 
full of it, I think the srcs are all there.

>One wouls have to pull the applicable RFCs to get the code even to a
> state where it is commented and usefull for modifications.
>
Yes, and a job for an editor with a much larger buffer than any of the os9 
varieties.

ATM, I can't recall if it even exists on my machine anymore.  IIRC the last 
time I played with it was on a coco2, some before I got married for the 
3rd time in '89.  Out of memory was a very common error then.

>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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