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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: comm programs
Summary: phone book vs. login script collection
Message-ID: <3611@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 02:08:53 GMT
References: <900909.201502.CDT.C506634@UMCVMB>
Reply-To: wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond)
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <900909.201502.CDT.C506634@UMCVMB> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes:
> . . .
>Actually, VLT supports exactly zero entries in it's phone book.  It doesn't
>have one.  Since it supports Arexx you can write your own phonebook function
>which is a nice thing to have.  But to say it has a phone book that supports
>an infinate number of entries is untrue.
>
>Eric Edwards: c506634 @    "The 3090.  Proof that by applying state of the
>Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu   art technology to an obsolete architecture,
>Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet       one can achieve mediocre performance."

Well, it *is* true that VLT provides for an unbounded (not the
same as infinite -- and, more properly, one should say bounded only by
memory) list of automated logins.

Of course, anyone who reads the net is capable of figuring from the doc
how to write an automated login script.  But not all of us have the time,
and for most an example will suffice.  Mind you, it needs to be configured
to the cues that each particular board provides.  In "\r" (for carriage
return) the '\' is the ARP escape (an environmental).  Remember the rule
never to put a password in a script.  Note this example is a "VLT macro"
that is *not* an ARexx macro.

This example is for a hypothetical board named "Wanda" so I might want to
name it "wanda.scp" and keep it in "REXX:".  Then I would either select it
from VLT's macros menu or *start VLT* with the syntax.

arun dh9:vlt wanda.scp NOIO

(which I might alias to "wanda")
                                (cut here)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
alpha:
send "ATDT4155551212\R"
on "BUSY" goto beta
wait "Hit RETURN"
send "\R"
wait "last name:"
send "alfred e neuman\R"
wait "password:"
send "drowssap\R"
wait "[Q]uit:"
send "\R"
on "Please hit RETURN:" send "\R"
wait "Main Command"
exit quiet
beta:
delay 20
goto alpha
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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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