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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Improved modem dialing for C-Kermit
Date: 27 Jun 1995 13:22:14 GMT
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In article <3snesa$6eo@Mars.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
: If you need features beyond expect-send sequences to dial, chances are
: that someone will that feature outside the context of dialing too.
: It should be included in the script command language, which in turn
: makes dialing as a macro possible.
:
It has always been possible to write dialing scripts for C-Kermit,
exactly as we do for MS-DOS Kermit. C-Kermit also has a built-in
dialer. If you don't like it and would rather use scripts, you can even
remove the built-in dialer by building C-Kermit with -DNODIAL.
: It is still moderately expensive to put an extra analog phone line
: in everyone's office along with their digital multi-line sets that
: don't work with modems, plus buying everyone their own modem.
:
True, but those digital phone sets, and the PBXs behind them, cost
truckloads of money already. I know, we have one here :-). Organizations
that buy them are *supposed* to include provisions for dialin, dialout, fax,
and answering machine service (ha ha).
: ... I'd like to use
: kermit to emulate one of them such that a PC kermit user would connect to
: the unix host via telnet and the unix kermit would pick a modem line and
: provide the connection as transparently as possible. My real problem in
: pursuing this at the moment is that I am replacing my AT&T servers
: with an OSI transport that allowed MSDOS kermit to do a scripted login
: to the unix hosts with a TCP/IP transport on the unix side and
: WFW/winsock on the PC side and I haven't found a way to use kermit
: with this setup.
:
Sigh, it's always something. Well, we are well aware of the need for
"Winsock compliance", and I hope we will have an interesting announcement
in this area some time soon (weeks or months, not years).
- Frank