Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!UOTTAWA.BITNET!SIMXT From: SIMXT@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Ed Sterling) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Telnet software with scripts? Message-ID: <90Jul10.005703edt.57413@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Date: 10 Jul 90 04:47:46 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Script or "macro" capabilities seem to be very common in "dial-up" telecommunications software programs, and as you say, it hasn't made it to TELNET yet. One interimsolution is to use one of these telecommunications packages with an INT-14 driver, and then couple it to something like FTP software's TNGLASS, which does the low-level TCP/IP I/O. KERMIT for example can do this, as it has an INT-14 I/O option now. My own company makes a dial-up 3270 emulation program, which has an INT-14 driver. Coupled with TNGLASS or a similar INT-14-to-TELNET support program, you can run scripted sessions over TELNET. Naturally we hope to have a real TELNET driver soon, so that we can bypass the more complicated INT-14 interface (maybe cumbersome is a better term). The INT-14 approach using your favorite PC telecommunications program (with INT-14 capability) is likely your best solution at this time. I think Walker Richie Quinn's Reflections does scripting, and has a TELNET interface as an option (called Telnet Manager). They appear to have very extensive emulations and a lot of features. Ed Sterling Simware Inc.