On Fri, 2 May 2003, Frank da Cruz wrote: > These were fixed for C-Kermit 8.0 long ago. The current release of C-Kermit > is 8.0.209. As far as I know, HP ships C-Kermit 8.0.200 or later with all > HP-UX 11.xx's. I suspect anybody who has "C-Kermit 6.0.192, 6 Sep 96, for > HP-UX 10.00" on HP-UX 11.00 or later must have upgraded their HP-UX version > without also upgrading Kermit. If you have an older version of C-Kermit on > ANY release of HP-UX all the way back to 5.21, you can get the current > release here: I fresh installed HP-UX 11.i has "C-Kermit 7.0.197, 8 Feb 2000, for HP-UX 11.00". > The syntax for the ASK command requires a variable name after the word > ASK. Anyway, try it in C-Kermit 8.0: > > /usr/bin/kermit -C "ask foo `perl -e 'print "A" x 800'`" > > If you increase 800 to some bigger number, the string is properly cut > off at the end of the ASK prompt buffer. The HP-Version seems to be immune even with higher numbers. Regards, Elmar -- _____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Germany Fon: +49 231 9703-0 Elmar.Knipp@knipp.de Fax: +49 231 9703-200