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From: [e-mail] (Dan Kanagy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help with input statement in a script file
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 09:23:00 +0900
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In article <3v84vb$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Alan Neustadtl) wrote:

|         Okay kermit gurus.....I am using ckermit for os/2 and attempting
| to automate a login to our university annex server.  I am trying to
| use the input statement to "look" for the typical Username:, Password:
| strings.

[...snip...]

As far as I can tell, I seem to be experiencing the same problem.  I'm
trying to create a script to log in to a VMS system from a OS/2 PC.  I
can't use VMSLOGIN since the remote host has added an extra step to
the login process.  The remote host also sends about 300 bytes of text
before it gets to what I'm trying to match in the input statement.
I've logged my session and the text I want to match is there but input
isn't finding it.  I've also logged in with debug and there are no
unusual hidden characters to cause problems--just the occasional ^M
and ^J.  No doubt the solution is trivial--once I know what it is.

FWIW, the relevant portion of the script is

  input 10 (1-2,q)
  if failure -
    end 1 No prompt

and my logged session is:

[27 ^Js followed by]
Please choose one of the following, then press RETURN.  If you have any
difficulty connecting, use our alternate access number, [phone].

                       1. Information (Username: Guest)
                       2. Access Twics Host Computer
                          Enter Selection (1-2,q)

Yes, I've bought *Using C-Kermit* and I'm glad I did.  There's no
other way to get the most out of kermit, in my opinion.

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