From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!karn
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Interactive script drivers
Article-I.D.: eagle.649
Posted: Tue Nov 23 22:56:43 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 05:36:14 1982

This is a belated followup article for the multitudes who asked for
any positive answers I got on interactive script driver programs.

My need is for an automated "gateway" function to GTE Telemail.
Rather than do

cu <number> | tee file

manually and edit the stuff I wanted out of "file", I wanted an automated
program that would call up, carry out a dialog, and generate files.
The ideal facility would be for the mailer to automatically redirect uucp
mail destined for Telemail userids.

The most sophisticated program I found is called RITA, for Rand
Interactive Terminal Agent.  I now have a copy of this program, but
haven't dug into it yet (it appears to require a large getting-started
energy potential.)  I also found out about some simpler ad-hoc programs,
but they were either specially designed for a particular micro or
proprietary to the labs.

Thanks for all the helpful replies.

Phil Karn
BTL Murray Hill