Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!elroy!spl1!laidbak!obdient!blair
From: blair@obdient.UUCP (Doug Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Downloading
Message-ID: <336@obdient.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 01:56:10 GMT
Organization: Obedient Software Corp, Wheaton, IL
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Greetings netlanders:

I have been given the task of setting up a system which will automatically

	1 - call our local tymnet dialup
	2 - log on to The Source
	3 - instruct the source to transmit a specific datafile
	4 - capture the datafile into a unix file
	5 - log off tymnet (we're not made of money)
	6 - send the data file to several users via email
	7 - send the data file to a remote printer reached via modem

This will probably involve a shell script starting cu and reading cu's
output (to receive various prompts) and echoing things back to the
transmit side of the cu process (to send passwords etc).  I had hoped
to set this up using the "chat scripts" in the /usr/lib/uucp/Systems
(Yes, we have HDB) file but of course those only seem to work in 
conjunction with uucico - and tymnet and the source don't act like
unix machines.

Any suggestions or hints you have along this line will be GREATLY
appreciated.  PLEASE RESPOND BY EMAIL - I'll post a summary of 
responses THAT WORK :-) to this group. 

Thanks!

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