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From: Andrew@cup.portal.com (andrew scott lagodzinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: rexxserdev.library
Message-ID: <25218@cup.portal.com>
Date: 20 Dec 89 15:16:13 GMT
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>     Seem to be having trouble with rexxserdev.library version 2- it won't
>open the library, no matter what I do.  This is the one by Joe Stivaletta-
>does anyone know of any other programs permitting arexx to access the serial
>port?
>     My ultimate aim- and please holler if you know it won't work or there's
>an easier way- is to use rexx to dial for VLT.  It is regrettably not as
>simple as sending EMIT commands to VLT, as VLT has no way of telling rexx
>how the attempted call turned out, as far as I can tell.  (Yes, I'm a rank
>novice.)  It seems that I need something to let rexx get at the serial port,
>or I need to use another language (aaaaauuuggghhhh!!!  I barely know rexx!)
>
>--dfh  ...uunet!galaxy!dsoft!dfrancis
>       "Think of something clever, and assume I said it"

	I just use VLT scripts to do the dialing.  It is not the greatest
way of doing things, but it works.  I just have a bunch a VLT Marcos, 
one for each BBS I call, and it will dial and login for me.  They can not
do any error checking to see of you really got connected, etc.  If you are
interested I can send you some example scripts.

	While I am using up nettime, could someone send me a copy of the
distribution of 'rexxserdev.library'.  This is th first I have heard of 
this beast, and would like to play with it.

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