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From: hwfe@ur-tut (Harlan Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm//Help
Message-ID: <1443@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 14:39:51 GMT
References: <9427@sunybcs.UUCP> <2687@i.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Harlan Feinstein)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
Lines: 32
Keywords: ARRAYS, PROCOMM

In article <2687@i.cc.purdue.edu> aja@i.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) writes:
]>In article <9427@sunybcs.UUCP>, uggrenon@sunybcs (Paul Grenon) writes:
]>> 
]>>   I know there are the 10 user definable variables (s0-s9), but 
]>>   what i'm trying to do is set up a generic download script, which
]>>   will prompt the user for the file names (more then 10! (but not
]>>   a fixed number either)) to be downloaded, and then do the 
]>>   actual download unattended.
]>
]>You can write a script that calls a program and then executes another
]>script.   then write (in C or (god forbid) something else) a prog thatll
]>accept filenames and build a temp script.  (the one that the initial script
]>calls)
]>
]>I have never used the procomm script stuff, but i would assume you could
]>execute other scripts as well as binaries ....  right ??  
]>
]>
]>miek

You're absolutely right.  I've done this before, and it works quite well.
Procomm does indeed have the ability to run other scripts.  If you were
using Telix, you'd have to do something wierd (like inserting the keystrokes
to call another script into the keyboard buffer from a DOS shell).

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