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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Script question
Message-ID: <1997Jan22.124547.92441@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 97 12:45:47 MDT
References: <1997Jan16.194932.27641@lafn.org>
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In article <1997Jan16.194932.27641@lafn.org>, aw585@lafn.org (Dallas Legan) writes:
> To interface with my Los Angeles FreeNet (LAFN) account,
> using their menuing system, I've written a set MS-DOS Kermit
> Scripts to emulate the presence of a Kermit
> server at the other end my connection with the Freenet BBS/eMail
> account. Part of the purpose is to provide a command line
> interface, opposed to the normal menu interface they provide,
> and also to provide a mechanism for writing scripts to interface
> with LAFN that will be portable across operating systems I might use.
> (LAFN has decided they will no longer make changes to the BBS side of
> their operation).
>
> I have to uniformly prefix the names of most of the scripts with an
> arbitrarily chosen character (I've chosen 'f' for FreeNet), to
> distinguish them from the already existing Kermit commands.
> For examples, fremote, fsend, fget, fmail, instead of remote, send, get,
> mail etc.
>
> My question is, is there any way to get these scripts to override the
> normal Kermit commands, so there would no longer be any need to use
> the prefixing character?
No, there isn't. The internal commands are always present and
cannot be removed nor overwritten by macros of the same name.
Joe D.
> While still under developement, I'm past the main hump on this project,
> and would be glad to show these to any one interested, either for their
> own use, or to critique them.
>
> TIA & Regards,
> Dallas E. Legan
> legan@acm.org
> aw585@lafn.org
> (310) 862 - 4854 ext. '*'