Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!amo!mregeste From: mregeste@amo.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: "Meta-macros" in Procomm Message-ID: <386@amo.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 12 Jul 90 15:11:28 GMT References: Reply-To: mregeste@amo.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas Lines: 34 Keywords: In article richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes: > > Since nobody I've spoken to knows of any way of reconfiguring >Kermit, I thought of making a macro in Procomm+ to do the Alt-P, >Alt-E, Esc, PgDn, 2 sequence needed to download ... *but*; Procomm+ >(of course) won't let me use it's special keys (like Alt-P) in a macro :-( With Procomm+, you can execute Procomm+ command language commands remotely. See page 200 of the manual for a discussion. In your case, you would send the commands to change the communication parameters to 7-EVEN-1 then tell Procomm+ to prepare for a Kermit file transfer. Below is part of a script we use to transfer files from the PC to our Towers. echo "\033^sendfile kermit \"$3\"\r\c" # tell procomm what to send if [ $1 = "-i" ] # check transfer type then kermit -ra $2 # receive with kermit - text else kermit -ira $2 # receive with kermit - binary fi >-- >/Richard Flamsholt >richard@iesd.auc.dk -- Mark Regester Information Systems & Services, NCR Peripheral Products Division NCR:654-8340 (316)636-8340 FAX:636-8889