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From: sdowdy@charon.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS KERMIT
Message-ID: <2457@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 88 05:26:57 GMT
References: <228@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <880302023027.1a4c@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: sdowdy@charon.unm.edu.UUCP (Stephen Dowdy)
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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In article <880302023027.1a4c@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
>
> >  Can VMS KERMIT run with an initialization file? IF so what is it called and
> >  where should it be located?
>
>VMS Kermit-32 version 3.1.066  looks for the file VMSKERMIT.INI in your
>current default directory for initialization.

If you dump the KERMIT executable, you'll see in one of the first few blocks
what appears to be a PARSE spec with VMSKERMIT and .INI as file specs.
You can define VMSKERMIT to be any file you like, and Kermit will try to open
PARSE("VMSKERMIT",".INI"), which will find your file first as VMSKERMIT will
be translated via TRNLNM.  So,  Here at UNM we have the following defined:

$ Define/System	VMSKERMIT SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSFOREIGN.KERMIT]VMSKERMIT.INI

Kermit, by default, will then open the system defined file and not the one
in your current directory.  A user may override the system definition via:

$ Define/Process VMSKERMIT MY_DIR:KERMIT.INIT

This allows the most flexibility, and helps to ensure, at least for our site,
that an unknowledgeable user will be configured with the "standard" kermit
parameters that optimize transfer over our network.  (and will function with
our help desk's standard Micro Distribution disk MSKERMIT.INI files)

--stephen
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