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From: [e-mail] (David Pollack )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Extracting path name of kermit take or init file
Date: 22 Oct 1995 23:34:07 GMT
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I need to extract the path name from the name of the currently
executing script file.

C-kermit command files, kept in users current directory, are invoked
with 'take filname.ext'. The same scripts work on both the DEC VMS
and
unix (aix, osf) platforms. With multiple users and machines, I want to
keep all take files on a machine in the same directory as the init file
so that i can get the path name into a macro and invoke them with the
form 'take \m(pname)flename.tak'.

I can use \v(cmdfile) to get the currently executing file name but how
can i get the pathname without first pulling the platform type and
parseing the filename string to get it. I am using 5A-190.

Also:
How compatible are C-kermit scripts with intel platform kermit. Is
anything documented on script compatibility with kermit on DOS, Windows
NT, and OS/2

Thank you

Sol Gongola
ADL Data Systems Inc.
[e-mail]