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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Is 8 data bits, even parity, 1 stop bit possible in kermit?
Date: 21 Feb 2000 14:48:29 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <zLbs4.120$YQ6.6236@news3.voicenet.com>,
Christopher Mosley <cmosley@voicenet.com> wrote:
: ...
: I downloaded the debian kermit 7 binary a gzip not a deb (I think), and
: it behaves much better than the version 6.? that is included in non-free
: with slink (current stable). Though I have had no problems with it, I
: was initially suprised that the 7.0 did not read from the system wide
: initialization file.
:
Install packages for Debian, Red Hat, etc, are made by Debian, Red Hat, etc.
There are numerous configuration choices, among them system-wide versus
personal initialization file. Whoever makes each package decides on the
configuration. In the Debian case, it was a different person than last
time.
The standard C-Kermit initialization file includes a lot of stuff that most
people don't use most of the time, primarily all of the service directory
macros. Thus it is often (usually) OK to start C-Kermit without the
initialization file, and it comes up a lot faster this way. You definitely
don't need most of this stuff when Kermit is to be used in remote mode, i.e.
at the far end of a file transfer, rather than for making connections.
C-Kermit 7.0 makes the choice easier with its new "kerbang script" feature,
which allows Kermit scripts to be run as if they were shell scripts; see:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case02.html
So a good way to install the new version might be as follows:
/usr/local/bin/kermit
/usr/local/bin/ckermit.ini
/usr/local/bin/<any-other-commonly-used-kermit-scripts>
all with execute permission, with /usr/local/bin in the PATH. If you want
to start Kermit "bare", type "kermit". If you want to start it with all
standard macros defined, type "ckermit.ini".
- Frank