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From: drw@runge.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Receiving files "automatically"
Date: 7 Nov 94 14:26:24
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In-Reply-To: kudut@ritz.mordor.com's message of Tue, 1 Nov 1994 18:03:47 GMT
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In article <CyLouB.6Lu@ritz.mordor.com> kudut@ritz.mordor.com (Ken Udut) writes:
>And why is it that Kermit comes with almost no documentation?
It comes with a *lot* of documentation. The KERMIT.BWR and KERMIT.UPD
file are both sets of documentation. If you issue a HELP at the Kermit
prompt, you get more information. While you are typing in a comment,
but you are not sure what to type in next, press a ?, and you will
magically get help for that command.
Well, it comes with a lot of documentation files, but they're
hellishly organized. The DIAL command, the second most important
feature (the first is terminal emulation), isn't in KERMIT.HLP, the
obvious documentation file, but is banished to the "Release notes"
file for some incomprehensible reason. Since one expects DIAL to have
been is version 1.0000, one does not naturally think of looking in the
release notes for it.
And what is "KERMIT.BWR"? Last I heard, "BWR" stands for Boiling
Water Reactor. Put the documentation in one place, fer crying out
loud, don't scatter it among a half-dozen files.
The HELP command will give you pages of details about "SET BIT-MANGLE
FROG-MODE", but there is no simple menu of the half-dozen commands
that everybody needs. (Unlike every other terminal emulator I've ever
seen.)
And if you make the mistake of starting Kermit when the current
directory is not the installation directory, then Kermit can't find
its initization files, and voila! DIAL simply disappears. (I don't
know about the PC world, but as a general thing, Unix software is
bright enough to be able to find its initialization files on its own.)
Dale
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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