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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit Push Command
Date: 1 Oct 1995 18:30:34 GMT
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.950930132944.29387A-100000-100000-100000@io.UWinnipeg.ca>,
Jim Clark <clark@UWinnipeg.ca> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Several months ago I asked about how to get Kermit to push back to the
>shell from which Kermit was called, rather than pushing to Dos. Shell was
>Wordperfect Office and solutions I received were specific to that shell.
>Is there any more general solution on the Kermit side; that is, can I
>control in anyway within Kermit or in calling Kermit whether Push starts a
>new command process or returns to the calling process? Seems to me that
>most people would want to return to calling shell rather than start a new
>process (e.g., to switch back and forth between Kermit and other
>programs). For example, that is what <Alt><F4> does in Procomm.
Jim,
the solution is extremely easy. Respecify the COMSPEC environment variable
to point to the program you wish to use as your SHELL.
Then MS-DOS Kermit or any other for that matter which supports the PUSH
command will start that process instead of the standard COMMAND.COM shell.
- Jeff
Jeffrey Altman * PO Box 220415 * Great Neck, NY * 11022-0415 * (516) 466-5495
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