kermit configuration file

[Bob Kinney]

I've searched high and low for an answer to this; hopefully somebody here can 
help.

I'm trying to get kermit to read two commands from a .mykermrc file in my home
directory:

SET LINE /dev/ttyS0
SET CARRIER-WATCH OFF

I also have an identical .kermrc.

For some reason, the SET LINE command does not work.  

[bob at micron ~]$ kermit
/var/lock
C-Kermit 8.0.209, 17 Mar 2003, for Red Hat Linux 8.0
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2003,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show file

 Transfer mode:           automatic
 File patterns:           automatic (SHOW PATTERNS for list)
 File scan:               on 49152
 Default file type:       binary
 File names:              converted
 Send pathnames:          off
 Receive pathnames:       auto
 Match dot files:         no
 Wildcard-expansion:      kermit
 File collision:          backup
 File destination:        disk
 File incomplete:         auto
 File bytesize:           8
 File character-set:      ascii
 File default 7-bit:      ascii
 File default 8-bit:      latin1-iso
 File UCS bom:            on
 File UCS byte-order:     little-endian
 Computer byteorder:      little-endian
 File end-of-line:        lf
 File eof:                length
 File download-directory: (none)
 Send move-to:            (none)
 Send rename-to:          (none)
 Receive move-to:         (none)
 Receive rename-to:       (none)
 Initialization file:     /home/bob/.kermrc
 Root set:                (none)
 Disk output buffer:      32768 (writes are buffered, blocking)
 Stringspace:             500000
 Listsize:                102400
 Longest filename:        255
 Longest pathname:        4096
 Last file sent:          (none)
 Last file received:      (none)

 Also see:
 SHOW PROTOCOL, SHOW XFER, SHOW PATTERNS, SHOW STREAMING, SHOW CHARACTER-SETS
(/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show comm

Communications Parameters:
 Line: /dev/tty, speed: unknown, mode: remote, modem: generic
 Parity: none, duplex: full, flow: none, handshake: none
 Carrier-watch: off, close-on-disconnect: off
 Lockfile directory: /var/lock
 Typical port device name: /dev/ttyS0

Modem signals unavailable

Type SHOW DIAL to see DIAL-related items.
Type SHOW MODEM to see modem-related items.

(/home/bob/) C-Kermit>


If I rename .kermrc to hide it, the CARRIER-WATCH line changes to the 
system default of "auto".


Using FC3 on kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3.

Anyone have any advice?

--cat



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