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  9. From: do11@calva.net (Dominique Ottello)
  10. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  11. Subject: Re: echo command works differently between 3.14 and 3.15
  12. Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:39:35 GMT
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  24.  
  25. On 22 Aug 1997 15:13:21 GMT, 
  26. fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote
  27.  
  28. > There is method in this madness.  Several years of experience with the
  29. > scripting language has shown that there is a need for two kinds of variables;
  30. > one that is fully (i.e. recursively) evalated, and another that is evaluated
  31. > only "one level deep" -- i.e. that is replaced by its literal definition.
  32.  
  33. Joe Doupnik and you have found where the problem was and you found a
  34. solution with substitution variables \%<letter>. 
  35.  
  36. I tried it, modified all my applications and all things about this problem
  37. work well with MS-DOS Kermit 3.15.
  38.  
  39. I thank you very much.
  40.  
  41. == Dominique Ottello == do11@calva.net == Paris == France ==