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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: macros and wild cards (feature request)
Date: 3 Apr 1995 22:22:23 GMT
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In article <ROCKWELL.95Apr3161321@nova.umd.edu>,
Raul Deluth Miller <rockwell@nova.umd.edu> wrote:
>I've spent a lot of time and energy on using kermit as a reliable file
>mover. Typically, this boils down to sending a file and deleting it
>after it's been successfully transfered.
>
Future releases of Kermit will have a MOVE command that will do this.
In fact, the latest OS/2 C-Kermit 5A(191) Beta edit has this feature,
but so far no other Kermit programs do.
>What I originally wanted to be able to do was something like get * but
>with a macro instead of get.
>
I could give you a better answer if I knew which version of Kermit
you were talking about. MS-DOS Kermit? C-Kermit?
>I think it would be very useful to be able to use implicit looping
>over file names selected by a wild card pattern.
>
We have this in C-Kermit. We don't have it in MS-DOS Kermit.
>It would probably be
>useful to factor this into two steps: gathering the names should
>probably be a different step from the implicit looping.
>
In C-Kermit, you use \ffiles(wildcard) and the fnextfile() to get each
filename, and assign it to an array member. See the example in
ckcker.bwr (search for "ffiles").
- Frank