Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!murdu!ucsvc!u3369429
From: u3369429@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: VMS KERMIT
Message-ID: <46@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 7 Mar 88 17:19:10 GMT
References: <8803061034.AA29037@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Lines: 34
Keywords: kermit init
Summary: try VMSKERMIT [.INI]
Organisation: Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University


In article <8803061034.AA29037@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, labovitz%etd1.DECnet@AFWAL-AAA.ARPA ("ETD1::LABOVITZ") writes:
>>Date: 26 Feb 88 22:21:46 GMT
>>From: fsimmons@ub.d.umn.edu  (Frank Simmons)
>>Organization: U. of Minnesota-Duluth, Computer Center
>>Subject: VMS KERMIT
>>Message-Id: <228@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
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>>
>> Can VMS KERMIT run with an initialization file? IF so what is it called and
>> where should it be located?
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> 
> VMS KERMIT (otherwise known as KERMIT-32) does not automatically take an
> initialization file, as far as I remember.  However, you can use the TAKE
> command (as in TAKE filename.type ) to process a personalized initialization
> sequence.  Since KERMIT-32 is no longer being refined, you may wish to move
> over to C-KERMIT 4E(070), dated 29 Jan 88, which does operate under VMS and
> which will automatically process the initialization file sys$login:KERMIT.INI
> upon entry.  You can obtain the source files for C-KERMIT 4E(070) from Columbia
> University (internet host cu20b.columbia.edu, anonymous login, files are
> in K2:), or I can send you a VMS_SHAR set of the sources.
> 
> 				LT Stuart L Labovitz
> 				USAF Avionics Laboratory
> 			arpa:	Labovitz%Etd2.decnet@Afwal-aaa.arpa
> 
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>     labor without effect, if confined to uncongenial pursuits.  And it is
>     thence to be inferred, that the results of human exertion may be
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> 					    -----  Alexander Hamilton 
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