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Grex Info Item 180: MS-Kermit scripting language?
Entered by popcorn on Mon Oct 10 13:08:39 UTC 1994:

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#1 of 15 by davel on Mon Oct 10 21:40:19 1994:

I don't really use Kermit (since many years ago), but I think that this
kind of stuff is designed to be roughly the same for all platforms, as
far as Kermit is concerned.  So you might try doing man kermit here &
see whether you find anything useful.

#2 of 15 by popcorn on Mon Oct 10 21:52:50 1994:

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#3 of 15 by remmers on Tue Oct 11 01:38:41 1994:

Well, I have the Kermit book.  What's it worth to you to borrow it?  :)

#4 of 15 by kentn on Tue Oct 11 06:43:36 1994:

Yes, get the Kermit book (Gianone).  Probably the C-Kermit book
also discusses scripts in detail, though I couldn't really say for sure.
popcorn, check out the new kermit Usenet groups, especially
comp.protocols.kermit.misc, which has recently been created from
the old comp.protocols.kermit, and is open for public posting.  One
of the recent threads was on an attack-dial script.  If you can find
it there, you won't have to re-invent the wheel.  If I remember,
attack-dialing with Kermit is somewhat problematic, so the solution
is kind of kludgy...

#5 of 15 by popcorn on Tue Oct 11 21:34:12 1994:

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#6 of 15 by kentn on Wed Oct 12 04:05:14 1994:

This would be a good thing to put in a starter-kit, if the kit
included a version of Kermit supporting this type of script...

#7 of 15 by remmers on Wed Oct 12 12:14:47 1994:

Basically, that should work.

Suppose you get tired of attack dialing and want to terminate
the script.  Will ^C do it?

#8 of 15 by popcorn on Wed Oct 12 13:26:50 1994:

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#9 of 15 by remmers on Wed Oct 12 17:12:19 1994:

I bet Ctrl-Alt-Del would do the trick!

#10 of 15 by popcorn on Wed Oct 12 17:34:48 1994:

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#11 of 15 by remmers on Wed Oct 12 22:15:25 1994:

I looked through the section on scripts in Gianone's book on MS-Kermit
and couldn't find any reference to it.  She gives a sample script
which attack-dials, but the script decrements a counter to limit the
number of retries.

#12 of 15 by davel on Thu Oct 13 00:05:24 1994:

Is there a way to get input from the user in that loop?  Can you set it
to time out in case of no response?  Set the time to something like
a second, maybe, & check for some particular short input, allowing
you to interrupt it that way.

(I doubt this is possible, since it's the two of you trying to figure
it out.  But just in case.)

#13 of 15 by davel on Thu Oct 13 00:16:45 1994:

One other thought: doesn't kermit have an "escape character" setting?
(Is this a sequence-prefix character, or an interrupt?  I certainly
don't remember how this worked, & it was over 10 years ago.)

#14 of 15 by kentn on Thu Oct 13 03:36:10 1994:

Kermit has an "if not <condition>" or "if <condition>" command that
I was looking at.  At first glance it doesn't seem to support the
kind of interrupt that we're looking for here (the <condition>'s
don't seem to support an escape key).  If a keypress could be read
at that point, I think it would solve the problem.

#15 of 15 by tsty on Thu Oct 13 06:14:11 1994:

Would this sort of script cum program be a good go-with for the
Rehabbed Computers Project - the DOS ones of course?

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