Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!leibniz!walt
From: walt@bcarh133.uucp (Walt Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Managing serial port communication
Message-ID: <WALT.91May31163105@bcarh133.uucp>
Date: 31 May 91 20:31:05 GMT
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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I need a tool that I can run on my HP-UX 6.5 (soon to be 7.0) system
to manage serial port communication with a brain-dead MSDOS
application. The application uses hotkeys (no newline needed (or
allowed)) and does not end its prompts with a newline.

I fuzzily recall seeing postings (here?) about a send/expect package
that might do the trick.

Any suggestions? ("Nuke the MSDOS box" has, sadly, been rejected
already).

Thanks,
--
Walt Sullivan
BITNET: walt@bnr.ca (work)
UUCP: walt@orbit.amiga.ocunix.on.ca (home)