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Article: 12861 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: Re: Dumb question about man pages
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>Actually I think Kermit is pretty useful the way it is. What could you do
>with a Perl extension to Kermit that you can't do already without one?
That's simple: Use a scripting language I already know instead of having
to learn yet another one :-).
Seriously, there is a possible point for long term development of the windows
kermit (don't let it hold up the native gui release though if that's ever
gonna happen one of these days :-). MS has defined various and sundry OLE
interfaces (which they probably now call Active-X interfaces) which might be
described as "meta" scripting interfaces. Programs which conform to them can
be scripted by any of the windows scripting language which also conform to
the other side of them. So if kermit were to make itself a compatible
scripting host, then folks who know visual basic could script it with that,
folks who know perl could script with that, python, C#, etc.
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