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From: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Terminal emulator for 6386 under UNIX(r)
Message-ID: <11060@electron.mips.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 18:10:23 GMT
References: <9877@drutx.ATT.COM> <4861@mtgzz.att.com> <7413@chinet.chi.il.us> <1454@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes)
Distribution: comp
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1454@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>The lastest versions of kermit have added a modicum of scripting
>potential somewhat akin to the expect-send chat scripts used in
>uucp Systems and/or Dialers files.

This kermit feature is useful for auto-login sequences and the like, but it
does not work for downloading significant amounts of data using simple
capture.  The maximum timeout interval you can specify is a two digit
number of seconds.  I've considered modifying the kermit sources to allow a
maximum timeout of 999 seconds, but I haven't tried it yet.

I regularly download data from a computer system that does not offer kermit
protocol.  Currently, I am using kermit and the "log session to file"
feature, but I must do it manually.  I'd like to automate this process with
some sort of scripting.

-wilkes
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