Columbia Kermit/kermit.zip/newsgroups/misc.19990725-20000114/[e-mail] _Thu Sep 2 13:50:03 1999.msg

Internet Message Format | 2020-01-01 | 2KB

Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.30])
    by watsun.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06401
    for <[e-mail]>; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:50:03 -0400 (EDT)
Received: (from news@localhost)
    by newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22987
    for [e-mail]; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
X-Authentication-Warning: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu: news set sender to <news> using -f
From: [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: credit report pull - newbie
Date: 2 Sep 1999 17:48:08 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <7qmd8o$me8$[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]

In article <7qmau4$pmb$[e-mail]>,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
: I'm trying to write a script to dial
: into a major credit bureau to pull credit in an automated fashion.
: Basically my plan is to use procmail to check incoming email and pull
: specific fields as arguments to be passed to a script that will in turn
: dial out to a processor... so with that in mind It looks like kermit
: will work great for me.
:
: So, my question is, how difficult is it to write a wermit program like
: this?  Any pointers to get me started in the right direction?
:
Start by reading the script programming chapters of the manual, Using
C-Kermit:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/manuals.html

(or other appropriate manual, depending on which platform you are developing
on).  And then look through the Kermit script library:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/scriptlib.html

for examples.

- Frank