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From: adldata@ix.netcom.com (David Pollack )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Extracting path name of kermit take or init file
Date: 25 Oct 1995 23:56:37 GMT
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In <46jo55$jn9@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> adldata@ix.netcom.com (David
Pollack ) writes:
>
>In <46h147$nkn@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
>(Frank da Cruz) writes:
>>
>>In article <46ekdf$bsv@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>,
>>David Pollack <adldata@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>: 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'.
>>:
>>How about this:
>>
>> take \v(inidir)filename.tak
>>
>>\v(inidir) is a built-in variable that holds the pathname of the
>directory
>>from which the initialization was (or should have been) executed,
>framed
>>suitably for concatenation with a filename, subdirectory name, etc.
>>
>>: 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
>>:
>>They are very compatible, despite some differences. I don't know
>exactly
>>how to quantify the degree of compatibility, but we are doing our
best
>to
>>reconcile the differences -- the later releases of C-Kermit and
MS-DOS
>Kermit
>>you have, the fewer incompatibilities. If you have questions about
>specific
>>features, feel free to post them.
>>
>>- Frank
>
>
>I can't find \v(inidir) using sho var (version 5A(190)). Not in vms
>version, not in aix version. I found no refs to it in the yellow
>C-Kermit book or in ckcker.upd. Do I need to compile kermit with an
>additional option to get it?
>
>Sol Gongola
woops: I found it, MS DOS kermit does have \v(inidir). But what about
C-kermit.
Sol