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From: xspolsky%yale-zoo-suned@CS.YALE.EDU (Avram Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm command files
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Date: 11 Sep 88 05:09:57 GMT
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In article <1831@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
| these command files could probably be quite versatile, if you 
| can use them for more than just reading and writing simple 
| text strings...  does anyone know if it is possible to start 
| a kermit download from within a procomm command file?  

Yes, all kermit commands can be initiated by a CMD file.

|                                                        could someone
| post the entire command language that procomm can understand?

No. :-)
Basically it'll do anything you can do by hand, plus some simple (but
sufficient) flow control and a few variables.

| 
| i may even end up shelling out $50 to get the manual for procomm,
| if it turns out that these command files are really whiz-bang.

The public domain distribution comes with the manual on the disk, so
buy yourself a printer ribbon for $5 and print it out yourself. 

| is 2.4.2 the latest version?  

No, there's a version called Procomm Plus which is not shareware - it
costs about $70. Many people have complained that Procomm+ is buggy
and has an even more inconsistent user interface than 2.4.2.

|                               how is the official documentation?

fine.

| thanks, folks!

welcome. BUT I wholeheartedly recommend kermit-2.31 over Procomm,
unless you need other transfer protocols besides kermit. The manual is
better, the user interface is somewhat more consistent (although it's
weak in auto dialing, which means you'll probably have to write some
scripts), and the script language is stronger.

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