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From: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: No Screen Output During Scripted Transfers ?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 02:22:57 GMT
Organization: Sirius Intelligent Doors
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 28 Jan 2000 00:16:59 GMT, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:
>Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>: I have an annoying but non-critical problem with scripted Kermit file
>: transfers not displaying anything (at all) to the screen.
>: ...
>: I ... am feeding it into Kermit using "kermit < myscript.scr" at a
>: Unix command prompt.
>:
>That's why you don't see the display. Kermit senses that its standard
>input is not a terminal, and therefore does not attempt to write anything
>to the terminal, since that could cause it to block.
>
>Just remove the "<" from your command line:
Thanks - that was it. Boy, do I feel foolish ...
Um, we *do* have the Kermit 6.0 book at work, and I didn't see that
documented anywhere ... new 7.0 edition pending ... hint hint .. "gotchas
section" for novices perhaps ...
I'm much obliged - thanks again.
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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