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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: local variable status
Date: 17 Sep 1997 14:59:33 GMT
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In article <1997Sep17.120124@merlin.ecid.cig.mot.com>,
Robert Cornell <cornellr@merlin.ecid.cig.mot.com> wrote:
: Could someone explain the following:
:
: [/home/cornellr/bin] C-Kermit>echo \v(local)
: 0
: [/home/cornellr/bin] C-Kermit> ; escape back
: (Back at pluto)
: [/home/cornellr] C-Kermit>echo \v(local)
: 1
: [/home/cornellr] C-Kermit>c
: ...
: [/home/cornellr/bin] C-Kermit>quit
: >exit
:
: Communications disconnect (Back at pluto)
: [/home/cornellr] C-Kermit>echo \v(local)
: 1
: [/home/cornellr] C-Kermit>set host <-- (see below)
: Closing connection
: [/home/cornellr] C-Kermit>echo \v(local)
: 1
:
: I may have misinterpreted what LOCAL does, I was under the
: impression that it returned 1 if kermit has an outgoing connection,
: 0 otherwise.
:
You're right, it should, and in most cases it does. You have evidently
hit upon a case where it doesn't, so I'll have to fix it. Workaround:
if you say "set line" rather than "set host" at the spot marked above,
\v(local) will behave as expected.
Thanks for the report.
- Frank