Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!inmos!rob@icarus.inmos.co.uk From: rob@icarus.inmos.co.uk (Robin Pickering) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Telnet software with scripts? Message-ID: <10108@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Date: 29 Aug 90 15:34:03 GMT References: <9008230554.aa01364@louie.udel.edu> Sender: news@inmos.co.uk Reply-To: rob@inmos.co.uk (Robin Pickering) Organization: Communications Group, Inmos Limited, Bristol, UK Lines: 41 In article <9008230554.aa01364@louie.udel.edu> PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) writes: >Many useful scripts can also be 'played' with keyboards enhancers. >They can also be useful for keyboard redefinition. >Additionally, they may allow WYSIWYG recording *during* the session. >I use DESQview's 'keyboard learn' (as well as cut&paste) a lot that way. >So easy that one rarely types the same key sequence more than twice. >Limitations are that: >1) There is no provision for logic. >2) No synch with output is provided (for systems that need that), only > fixed time delays. But there could be a TSR to watch the screen and > wait until anything specific is displayed (and logic limited to abort). > Anybody knows one? One product that I know of which does exactly what you require is called "Automator MI". From what I have seen of this program, it looks quite good. It is a TSR which is able to record and play back entire complex sequences with full synchronisation and keypress emulation. It does however have one drawback - it's expensive. It is aimed at the corporate market (automating unattended PC backups, data transfer etc) Anyway their address is: Direct Technology Grove House, 551 London Rd Isleworth, Middlesex, TW 7 4DS UK +44 81-847 1666 +44 81-847 3911 Disclaimer: The only connection I have with the above company is having seen their product demo'd on a couple of occasions, and that was a while ago. Rob Pickering. -- JANET: ROB@UK.CO.INMOS | Snail: 1000 Aztec West Internet: rob@inmos.com | Almondsbury Path: ukc!inmos!rob or uunet!inmos-c!rob | Bristol BS12 4SQ Phone: +44 454 611638 | UK