[Ham-Mac] KPC-9612 and KISS

[Paul Williamson]

>Does anyone  have any idea how to get a Kantronics KPC-9612 out of KISS mode?
>
>I've tried the 'escapekiss.bin' program using Z-Term on the Dog Park 
>Software site and have had no luck.

Try using goSerial to send escapekiss.bin. I have not tried this with 
a KPC-9612, but I have tested goSerial with binary file sending and 
it is transparent.

goSerial is still "unfinished" and in "alpha" but the features it 
implements are solid. It has a useful feature set for test/debug 
applications (in part because that's what I wanted and I bugged the 
author to implement those things). The main thing missing is VT100 or 
other terminal emulation; for now it's a dumb TTY.

http://www.harmless.de/cocoa.html#goserial

Actually, you probably don't need a program at all. Right after 
running the KISS-mode program (which configured the serial port 
correctly) you can probably say this on a Terminal command line:

cat escapekiss.bin >/dev/tty.USA49W18112P1.1

... where you will have to substitute the name of your serial port 
for tty.USA49W18112P1.1

And then, whether that works or not, petition the authors of your 
favorite KISS-mode programs to add this functionality directly into 
the program. You really shouldn't have to mess with it yourself.

73  -Paul
kb5mu at amsat.org