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From: oberg@teal.csn.org (Craig Oberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit vs MS-Kermit
Date: 9 Nov 1994 18:26:05 GMT
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fdc@fdc.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
>In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.941106143639.22421D-100000@blue> "Archimedes L.
>Trajano" <cs932070@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> writes:
>> Is it not possible to create an MS-DOS version of Kermit from the
>> C-Kermit source files?
>>
>Maybe, but why bother? It would be bigger, slower, and do less, except
>for some of the script programming features. With some care, it is quite
>possible to write script programs that are portable between MS-DOS
>Kermit and C-Kermit. I'm not denigrating C-Kermit at all, but really,
>when you consider how much functionality is packed into the 200K-or-so
>MS-DOS Kermit executable, it's astounding.
For my use, the script programming is one of the MOST important
features of MS-kermit and C-Kermit. I would love to have the the
C-kermit and MS-Kermit scripting interfaces be 100% compatible
(except for those limited by the OS). Perhaps there could be a
way to link the C-kermit scripting source in to the MS-kermit
version with out increasing the size dramaticly. If this is not
possible or wise, then I would request to enhance the MS-kermit's
scripting features to be compatible with C-kermit. For me, I
would trade a lot of the size to get compatibility and readability
of MS-kermit scripts.
Craig Oberg
oberg@hexagon.com