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  1. Article: 12861 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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  5. Subject: Re: Dumb question about man pages
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  7. From: Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
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  13. Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:56:59 GMT
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  21. >Actually I think Kermit is pretty useful the way it is.  What could you do
  22. >with a Perl extension to Kermit that you can't do already without one?
  23.  
  24. That's simple: Use a scripting language I already know instead of having
  25. to learn yet another one :-).
  26.  
  27. Seriously, there is a possible point for long term development of the windows
  28. kermit (don't let it hold up the native gui release though if that's ever
  29. gonna happen one of these days :-).  MS has defined various and sundry OLE
  30. interfaces (which they probably now call Active-X interfaces) which might be
  31. described as "meta" scripting interfaces. Programs which conform to them can
  32. be scripted by any of the windows scripting language which also conform to
  33. the other side of them. So if kermit were to make itself a compatible
  34. scripting host, then folks who know visual basic could script it with that,
  35. folks who know perl could script with that, python, C#, etc.
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