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From: gerlach@netcom.com (Matthew H. Gerlach)
Subject: Re: kermit scripting GUI capabilities?
Date: 20 Dec 1999 23:21:03 GMT
Organization: NETCOM / MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
Message-ID: <83mdkv$q3c$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
If all you want is to script telnet rather than scripting telnet or
serial connections, may I suggest using Perl. Perl has a very useful
telnet module that makes scripting easy. You can also use the Tk module
to create a GUI.
Matthew
In article <83isul$g9f$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In article <83ilup$9r$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>,
>Matthew <phyxx@netscape.net> wrote:
>: I want to find a telnet program that can offer scripting capabilities. At
>: the moment I am using Zoc (www.emtec.com) but the scripting capabilities
>: offered by Zoc are limited by its lack of GUI options. The most it has is a
>: one line input box or a box with a selection of buttons. Does Kermit offer a
>: little more flexability in its scripting?
>:
>Kermit has a very flexible scripting language with variables, arrays, block
>structure, functions, regular expressions, etc, but it's not a GUI builder; it
>is stricly text oriented. See:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/scriptlib.html
>
>for samples.
>
>- Frank