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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
Subject: Re: set input echo ( on | off )
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:02:02 -0700
Organization: Not Very Much
Message-ID: <38F24F5A.4AEAB8A@value.net>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Joe Doupnik wrote:
>
> In article <8cqngi$r2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Peter Easthope <peter_easthope@gulfnet.pinc.com> writes:
> > What happens if you put the three lines of your
> > example into a file called, say test.scr, and
> > then issue "msk316 take test.scr"? In effect
> > that is what I do, but with hundreds more lines
> > of Kermit code. The FirstClass server sends
> > characters just as a C-Kermit server must.
> >
> Nothing happens unless commands in that Take file make them
> happen.
To be a bit more specific, if you put the commands
define foo output type bigfile.txt\13, input 10 NotHere
set input echo off
foo
in a file called test.scr and then issue "msk316 take test.scr", the
listing of bigfile.txt will not be displayed. It makes no difference
whether the commands are issued directly to a MS-Kermit prompt or in a
file which is taken from a prompt or taken on the command line.
Perhaps the problem here is one of side effects. For example, the
"dial" macro invokes a modem script (normally found in .\modems) and
those modem scripts leave input echo in an "on" state regardless of its
initial state. Thus
set input echo off
dial T123-4567
...
will appear not to work, whereas
dial T123-4567
set input echo off
...
will work as expected.
--
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