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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Quick Question on switch statement and :1, :2
Date: 1 Dec 2003 20:28:31 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <f0bb0f39.0312010952.48be7cb4@posting.google.com>,
newexpectuser wrote:
: ... I have gone through several articles on the website,
: searching through the newsgroups and reviewing case studies and have
: not found anything that addresses the issue I am having.
:
: If there is online training or even classroom training, I'd find this
: as being beneficial.
:
If there was sufficient demand for classroom training, we'd have classes.
(In fact we did have them from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s but
then demand slacked off.)
: The case study I was pointed to, mentioned ftping a file to a central
: server in a "working" directory where another script running on the
: central server would look for files in a "ready" directory. I can
: understand this concept, as it is obvious you wouldn't want to process
: a file that is still being in transit.
:
: It goes on to suggest of having the script move the file from the
: working directory to the ready directory, but what if there is a
: partial file there, it would still try to move this partial file and
: try to process it.
:
I answered this in my response to your previous posting. I would like to
stress that the Kermit command language is just that: a language. If we
publish a sample script, it is not carved in stone -- it is a sample. You
are supposed to copy it and then adapt it to do what you want it to do.
In this case, it already did. But if it didn't, you would just edit it
with an ordinary text editor, save it, and execute it. If it has bug,
debug it using any of Kermit's many and varied debugging tools, traces,
and logs.
Try things by hand and seen what they do. Use the STATUS command at the
prompt to see if the previous command succeeded or failed. Use the HELP
command at the prompt to find out all sorts of things, and to get
descriptions of commands. For example "help if" and "help exit" would
have told you why the FTP sample script did not do what you think it did.
Kermit helps you to help yourself; you don't have to post to the newsgroup
every time you have a question and then wait a long time for an answer.
Ask Kermit. Or search the website.
- Frank