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

jdaggett at gate.net jdaggett at gate.net
Wed Nov 1 15:29:53 EST 2006


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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