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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Proposed Change in Dialing Directory Format
Date: 22 Jul 1995 00:39:19 GMT
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Those of you who use MS-DOS Kermit and C-Kermit dialing directories
know the dialing directory is a plain text file, one line per entry.
Each line looks like this:
name number speed parity comments
For example:
info 18005551212 2400 even Blah blah blah
The first four fields have to be "words", in the Kermit sense, with
no embedded spaces. Or, if they must contain embedded spaces, they
have to be braced, e.g.:
info {1 800 555 1212} 2400 even Blah blah blah
The question is: Does anybody actually use the speed and parity fields?
Or if you do, would you care a lot of they went away?
If you think about it, the real purpose of a dialing directory is to let
you use names in place of numbers, so it really should contain only a name
and the associated phone number or, perhaps, a list of phone numbers to be
tried until one answers. The speed is a property of your modem (or maybe
of the other modem), but that is not necessarily tied to the phone number.
For example, if you have a 2400 bps modem on one computer (or port) and a
V.34 modem on another, that should not require you to have different
dialing directories. Similarly, the parity is a property of the host or
service or device you are calling (or calling from) and might well be
independent of the phone number.
Removing the speed and parity fields would let us write the phone number
in a more readable, convenient, intuitive, and transportable fashion,
e.g. for importing and exporting dialing directories from/to other
applications.
The place for the other items would be in a services directory (like
C-Kermit's), which would provide complete service -- connection
establishment and automatic logging in.
Thanks.
- Frank