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Article: 14029 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Using C-Kermit 3rd Ed.? (was: getting kermit command output to a file?)
Date: 23 Jan 2003 16:36:49 -0500
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In article <Pine.HPX.4.44.0301231128450.18368-100000@fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us>,
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@ccsf.edu> wrote:
: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Thomas A. Horsley wrote:
: > (One of these days I gotta replace my 1st edition Using C-Kermit book and
: > memorize it, but I keep hoping a new edition with all the new features
: > merged into one nice book will come out :-).
:
: I have the same hope. Some time ago there was talk of a 3rd edition coming
: soon. More recent talk has made a 3rd edition seem unlikely. I have no
: problem with buying the 2nd edition other than the worry that as soon as I
: do, the 3rd will be published.
:
: So what's the story? Will there ever be a 3rd edition? If so, will it
: come any time soon?
:
If I say it's coming soon, nobody will buy the second edition from the
moment I say that. In times like these, nobody can afford to be sitting
on unsold stock. Let me just say that the second edition is still the
definitive reference for C-Kermit, as supplemented by the update pages on
the web, and that we do plan to have a third edition -- or something
completely different in its place -- in the future, but I can't say when
or in what form. In the meantime, we (and our publishers) still need
revenue to stay in operation.
A major difference between the first and second editions is the addition
of block structure to the command language syntax in C-Kermit 6.0. Thus
all the examples in the later chapters are different and much nicer than
the earlier "comma,dash" syntax. Anybody who is using the first edition
as a guide to writing script programs is much better off with the second.
I don't expect the fundamental structure of the language to change at
such a basic level again.
Anyway, there's something to be said for collecting the whole set :-)
- Frank