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From: Petri <Petri_member@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Running kermit from within glftpd
Date: 21 Apr 2004 01:24:40 -0700
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In article <slrnc8b02s.dfv.fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu>, Frank da Cruz says...
> Now maybe you'd like to write a case study:
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/studies.html
Ugh, I'm not that good a communicator. :)
Besides, I have barely started yet, only now do I have both Perl and Kermit
running inside this jail thingy.
The problems I have had, have been caused be me not having any basic Linux
experience at all.
> about how you got Kermit to work under glftpd,
> and (even more to the point) *why* ?
Well, it's quite trivial now, when the underlying system works.
Most of the code in fact goes into the Perl scripts, they in turn autogenerate
Kermit scripts for remote operations.
There are several site commands requested, and I have only done one yet, the
very simplest one.
When I am done with them all, I'll see if I can formulate something worthwhile
from the experience for your case studies.
But really, all that is needed is that you can read command line arguments,
which is how glftpd passes arguments to external scripts, so you could very
easily use a pure Kermit script.
I use Perl to simplify the command interface for the user, and trim the output
of Kermit.
Why?
Why indeed, this has taken a lot more of my time than I naively expected...
These sites deal with the collecting and synchronizing of ROM-dumps from classic
arcade machines.
The emulators, especially MAME, are being developed at a rapid pace.
MAME in fact can emulate both HDD and CD-ROM based arcade machines now.
That means the collections are increasing very rapidly in size nowadays.
A friend is involved in this archiving and collection project, he asked me to
help out and I agreed.
It isn't a public project, not yet anyway.
Even though there are some websites that offer single downloads of roms, there
are some licensing issues involved, especially with the latest releases.
Well, it sounded like a good cause to me. :)
Petri