On 2004-08-09, wrote:
: Desired Function:
:
: Display contents of remote file onscreen w/o saving it to local file
: Store contents of remote file into kermit macro or variable w/o saving to
: local file.
:
REMOTE TYPE filename

- Frank

>"Frank da Cruz" wrote in message
> REMOTE TYPE filename

Thanks Frank, for the fast replay -- which answered the first goal, I
started looking at the get /command switch when I couldn't figure out how to
stuff the rtype output to a variable...
-- rtype will display file contents ,
SET QUIET ON gets rid of extraneous header/footer info but I still have to
figure out how to stuff the filecontents into a macro or variable.

I'm sure this is blindingly obvious to someone who has worked with the
product for decades, but I have been unable to locate syntax which
demonstrates the correct use of this.

On 2004-08-10, wrote:
:>"Frank da Cruz" wrote in message
:> REMOTE TYPE filename
:
: Thanks Frank, for the fast replay -- which answered the first goal, I
: started looking at the get /command switch when I couldn't figure out how to
: stuff the rtype output to a variable...
: -- rtype will display file contents ,
: SET QUIET ON gets rid of extraneous header/footer info but I still have to
: figure out how to stuff the filecontents into a macro or variable.
:
There is no OBVIOUS way to do this. Consider that a remote file might be
gigabytes long.

Still, there is a non-obvious way:

def xx query kermit command(cat filename)
do xx

where "cat" is the command used on the other computer to display a file's
contents (use "type" for most non-Unix systems). Defining a macro to do this
and then executing the macro is a trick to suppress display of the file on the
screen during download ("set quiet on" doesn't affect QUERY).

The result is in the \v(query) variable, unless the file is too big to fit
or it contains NUL bytes, in which case it will be truncated.

- Frank

Neat solution. I am perversely glad that it wasn't some simple switch I
wasn't
seeing in the documentation.