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From: "Itzak Ademic" <itzak.ademic@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Type ? or HELP for help.
Organization: Unattractive Data Associates
Message-ID: <EsiQ4.48075$fV.2981519@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:30:12 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
If MSK knows that it's reading from the "real" keyboard,
rather than taking from a script,
can it issue the help advice only just before
the first such "real" read?
(It knows enough to issue a prompt, right?)
Joe Doupnik wrote in message ...
>In article <8ej2pn$3dd$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Peter Easthope
<peter_easthope@gulfnet.pinc.com> writes:
>> When MS-DOS Kermit is started with
>>
>> msk316 -f script
>>
>> it mentions
>>
>> Type ? or HELP for help.
>>
>> but this is seems inappropriate in script processing.
>> Can this reminder be shut off?
>>
>> Thanks, peter_easthope@gulfnet.pinc.com
>---------
> It all depends, as they say. The script need not be a hands-off
>affair disallowing user input. The most common script is mskermit.ini
>itself and user interaction is the norm with it. Thus the Type ? message
>occurs because MSK can't know that no user interaction is desired. I don't
>think there is an easy solution to this.
> Joe D.