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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Receiving files "automatically"
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Date: 8 Nov 94 10:56:02 MDT
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In article <DRW.94Nov8110735@runge.mit.edu>, drw@runge.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
> In article <39m861$bob@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> fdc@fdc.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> But if one looks up the DIAL command in KERMIT.HLP, one sees "See
> KERMIT.UPD". So it should not be that hard to figure out.
>
> Hmmm... Just checked my KERMIT.HLP (version 3.13, gotten from
> watsun.cc.columbia.edu, I think, but I can't check right now, its FTP
> server is hosed), and it doesn't say that, although it does mention
> the DIAL command in passing at one point.
>
> Like most other DOS programs, Kermit needs to know where its ancilliary
> files are so it can behave in a consistent way no matter what directory
> you start it from. What would you have it do -- a "find file" over all of
> your disks?
>
> Have KERMIT.EXE know where to look, as is universal in Unix software.
> You wouldn't even have to make it configurable, since everything
> assumes that Kermit will be in C:\KERMIT.
> If I wanted to buy the manual for a telecomm program, I'd go to my
> local software store and buy Procomm.
But then you'd have to read it all by yourself with no way to
talk to the developers.
DOS ain't Unix, in case you haven't discovered that yet. Unix
won't necessarily find files either unless the PATH is used or the
program is built to look in its startup directory. The latter "feature"
can be implemented under current versions of DOS but only with trepedition
from a non-tree directory system (all those letters, SUBST, network drive
mappings, all the things which make it nearly impossible to know a
directory as a real directory).
Joe D.
> Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu