Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!utoday!sean
From: sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)
Message-ID: <1815@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 21:04:58 GMT
Reply-To: sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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We use a shell script and UUCP to do an automated ascii upload to a
publishing system that is pretty void of any knowledge of
communications with the outside world.

At any rate, we have a /bin/sh script that basically does:

	cu sysname <FILE

Where FILE is of the form:

~!/bin/slp10 	 			#wait 10 seconds
piles of data to be uploaded
~!/bin/slp10				#wait another 10 seconds
~.					#Hangup the telephone.

This has been somewhat reliable, but only allows for one file
per call. Given that there is a modem shortage on the remote end, this
is unacceptable.

So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do something like:

~!for a in `ls files`

... etc.

??
We're running on Xenix 2.3.3 if that makes a difference, using a TB+
over a 19200 serial line.

-- 
Sean Fulton					sean@utoday.com
UNIX Today!					(516) 562-5430
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