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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Kermit & Help With Kermit.Init
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Date: 21 May 89 16:57:09 GMT
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>any way to avoid needing a Kermit.Init file??  Everytime I use Kermit
>without that text file in the directory, it goes berserk, giving me some
>"Illegal Call to such-such routine" type msg.  I'm trying to make my
>copy of Kermit completly independent of any other outside files, but
>this little problem persists.

If you've saved all the set parameters you need and BSAVE'd Kermit, it
WILL look for a KERMIT.INIT file and generate a one line error message
if it doesn''t find one; however, you can simply ignore the message (the
program should end up in local mode with the Kermit-65> prompt - at least
it does for me :-)  Most folks prefer at least a one line KERMIT.INIT
file containing CONNECT (so that the BRUN ends up in terminal mode).

Why is it important to make the program completely independent of any other
file?

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