Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Kermit-like interactive protocol??
Message-ID: <7846@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 2 Mar 89 07:11:47 GMT
References: <2546@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <2546@cuuxb.ATT.COM> att!spock!jcd (Jack Dixon) writes:
>Has anyone modified Kermit so that it can be used as an interactive protocol?
>We need to have an ibm pc talking to a unix machine over a dial-up and I
>was thinking of modifying Kermit.  There will be a lot of small data transfers
>going in both directions.

Do you mean you want a terminal session with packet protocol or just
something a little different than what the kermit server usually does?
I've wanted the latter myself - something like having the the ability
to give REMOTE HOST commands to the server from a script with the ability
to seperatly redirect the command input/output from/to files on the
local machine and have the command exit status returned as a variable in
the script.  No, I don't know if any such thing exists.  You can sort
of fake it by transferring the input file, running a script on the host
that sends the command output, error and status to files which are sent
back, but it's not quite the same...

Les Mikesell