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From: wisanr@hartwick.edu (Dick Wisan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: SET PRINTER & 0-byte files
Message-Id: <1995Jan21.212536.1776@hartwick.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 95 21:25:36 -0500
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A problem when you SET PRINTER filename and then \Kprtscn to start
logging to "printer". If there's no such file, Kermit creates it.
If the file exists and has something in it, Kermit appends to it, but
if it's a 0-byte file, Kermit balks with an error message that the
printer isn't ready.
This happened in MS-Kermit 3.13, but I waited for 3.14. 3.14 does it,
too. Surely this isn't intended?
Is there a fix for this? I work around it by embedding the call to
Kermit in an alias that checks for and deletes 0-byte files in the logs
directory, but that takes time, and it shouldn't be necessary.
--
R. N. (Dick) Wisan - Email: internet WISANR@hartwick.edu
- Snail: 37 Clinton Street, Oneonta NY 13820, U.S.A.
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