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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Improved modem dialing for C-Kermit
Date: 24 Jun 1995 17:28:06 GMT
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In article <3sft9o$8ul@Mars.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
>In article <3seuml$4s6@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> . Easy addition of new modem types by the user.
>
>Why not teach it to read uucp Devices and Dialers files on the unix
>version at least? Everyone has to set these up anyway and it's
>annoying to have to do it all over again for kermit and add a
>start up script that knows how to find a free modem line.
>
Completely ignoring the difficulties among different UNIX versions
as to the names, locations, formats, contents, and very existence of
these files...
It is because C-Kermit is not "just" a UNIX program. If I did this for
UNIX, I would still have to do it some other way for VMS, OS/2, AOS/VS,
VOS, the Amiga, and so on. OK, fine, I'm lazy.
But that's not the only reason. The other reason is at the heart of
the "Kermit philosophy" (if I may be so pompous). Our goal is to
provide a suite of communication software programs that work consistently
across hundreds and hundreds of platforms. I know that we have not
totally succeeded in achieving the goal, but we are working towards it,
and we are definitely opposed to working against it. There are only
so many hours in a day, and when we (Kermit developers) can grab a few
spare ones to work on software development, those hours are better spent
creating features that can be used on many systems, rather than just one.
Then, when we document how to set up support for a new modem, we document
it one way, not forty-three ways.
If we did not feel this way, we would be just like every other software
developer -- working on the ONE platform that pays off big-time, and
that ain't UNIX !-)
So when somebody posts a query on this newsgroup asking for the commands to
set up an XYZcommFaxBlasterPro V.34+++++ for C-Kermit, it should not matter
what OS they have. The answer should be, and will be, the same for all OS's
where C-Kermit runs.
- Frank