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From: dold@88.usenet.us.com
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Subject: Re: MUMPS and Kermit
Date: 19 Aug 1997 16:37:52 GMT
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Carl Frey (Carl-Frey@Worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Apparently, when they (my customer) wants to transmit invoices to the
: providers (like Medicare), they need to shut down the MUMPS O/S, boot DOS
: and send the file over the modem using ProComm.
What about using Kermit "Log Session" to capture a printout?
If you can "print" the invoices to a serial printer, you could configure
Kermit to act as the serial printer, and capture the text.
That might be suitable as is, or you might need some filtering program to
adjust the output as needed.
Interfacing to closed systems that don't want to talk to the rest of the
world is one of the strongest points for Kermit.
I take "print jobs" from other systems via kermit, parse them on a Unix box
using awk, and automate several tasks that used to be a matter of printing
from the old system and rekeying on the new system.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@network.rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.