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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: C-kermit scripts to poll remote sites?
Date: 26 Oct 1999 20:16:34 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <381605B7.81B65D40@usit.net>, ERA <era@usit.net> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
: >
: > In article <380913E3.37DB2EF3@usit.net>, ERA <era@usit.net> wrote:
: > : I just looked through the script repository -
: > :
: > : http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html
: > :
: > : - to see if there were any scripts upon which I could build a
: > : polling process. Unfortunately I saw nothing.
: [text deleted]
:
: > A fair chunk of Chapter 19 of the manual:
: >
: > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck60.html
: >
: > is devoted to this topic.
: >
: > - Frank
:
: Right, page 447+ has information on Nightly Polling but it seems to
: deal mainly with logging in to systems that require logins (like unix
: systems) and starting kermit once logged in. I don't see anything
: dealing with dialing up a DOS box from a multiuser system for
: polling.
:
Countless scenarios are imaginable but they can't all go into one book!
: I may just not be reading between the lines enough. In any
: case I was hoping someone had done this and could offer pointers or
: send me a file that I could build on to set this up without having to
: go through a trial and error process to poll the DOS systems. We have
: used BLAST for this in the past but have not been happy with their
: multiplatform "support" or their prices since their push toward
: Microsoft's junk and have placed our faith in your products as a
: result.
:
Thanks. The nightly polling material in "Using C-Kermit" takes on the
general situation in which you have to make the connection, log in,
start Kermit, transfer data, and log out. If you are making connections
to DOS systems, obviously there is less to it than that: there's generally
no question of authentication since DOS is a single-user open system without
users or passwords). Furthermore, remote access to DOS is not possible
unless you are running some kind of special application on DOS that
provides it -- so DOS is not like UNIX, in that you don't get a login
prompt and a shell when you come in thru the serial port.
: ... to buy the C-kermit and DOS-kermit in the hopes that someone would
: "come through" on this. I guess since this thread seems to have died
: with your comment I am on my own. I am a bit disappointed with the
: lack of response. Oh well, at least you have our money.
:
We answered your previous post -- this is the first time we've heard
from you since then. We don't read minds!
We also don't generally write your business applications for you, since
obviously if we did this, we'd have time for nothing else -- or even for
that, given the potential demand. Instead, we provide the software and
the documentation, and we're glad to answer specific questions about it,
especially when the documentation isn't clear, since that would be our
fault. Ditto if the software has bugs, etc.
If you want to sketch out your needs in more detail, we'll be glad to
offer suggestions. I can't suggest anything specific now because I
don't know what software you have on DOS to answer the phone when
C-Kermit calls it. If you don't know that either, then you might want
to consider MS-DOS Kermit, which runs a script that puts the modem in
answer mode, waits for a call to come in, and then enters server mode.
>From that point the C-Kermit script can take over.
- Frank