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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help with scripting kermit
Date: 25 Nov 1997 15:34:50 GMT
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In article <65d69n$9hh$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@network.rahul.net> wrote:
: ......
: : : In Unix, the cu dialer has a feature called "echo check", where each
: : : character is held until the previous character has been echoed back
: : : correctly. Is such a pacing option available in C-Kermit?
:
: : Not built into the OUTPUT command. But of course you can do it yourself:
:
: : output blah\13
: : input 10 blah ; soak up the echo
: : if fail <do something>
:
: [but] blah\13 isn't what I'm after.
:
: Instead of
: output 12345\13
: input 20 ACP
: what I need is a loop of
: output 1
: input 10 1
: output 2
: input 10 2
: output 3
: input 10 3
: output 4
: input 10 4
: output 5
: input 10 5
: output \13
: input 10 \13
:
Right -- this would automatically provide the best response for "echoplex"
connections that did now allow typeahead. It looks like we need to add
another feature to the queue, something like:
OUTPUT /SOAK-UP-ECHO <string>
(but with a better name.) Incidentally, in most cases this part:
: output \13
: input 10 \13
:
won't work, since when you send a carriage return it is likely to be echoed
in many different ways (including not only CRLF and LFCR, but also cursor-
positioning escape sequences), and the aforementioned proposed new feature
would have to account for that in some way.
Our new-feautures queue is quite long (and, of course, includes feature
requests like "Kermit has too many features - make a new version that is
simpler"), and our scheduling algorithm is the expected mixture of perceived
importance, "squeaky wheel", ease/size/safety of implementation, and so on.
We'll see what we can do.
- Frank