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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Adding ARexx support to a Comm Program (A Tutorial)
Keywords: AREXX, SERIAL
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Date: 23 Oct 88 19:47:56 GMT
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In article <7444@well.UUCP> aleks@well.UUCP (Brian Witt) writes:
|Great, some one strapped AREXX onto a comm program.  What verbs did you
|implement?  Could you post a list so we might arrive at a sort-of
|standard? 

All commands available from menus are also implemented from the script
language.  On the thing the people that will do it for Vt100 have to change
is to throw away the distinction between "init" and "general" commands.
All commands should be "general". Otherwise, for example, you cannot build
a database of phone numbers with associated comm params, etc...  and then be
able at any time during a session to switch back and forth between hosts.
The only AREXX-relative commands are the one listed in the tutorial, and
that are used to return replies from the host as ArgStrings.

| Do you seperate out Xmodem (ZModem?) and Kermit from the
|main hull sothat I could have a xmodem protocol run over the serial
|line without having to invoke the whole program.  Orshould I
|invoke the wholoe program sothat everythin is there?

No, you invoke the whole program.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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