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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: C-kermit scripts to poll remote sites?
Date: 27 Oct 1999 13:32:41 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <38168C5B.4C870077@usit.net>, ERA <era@usit.net> wrote:
: ... I am basically looking for scripts, pointers and/or help
: from the c-kermit and dos-kermit community at large. The onus is not
: on you or your team to provide the solution for me. If there is a
: better forum for asking for scripts or help from *other* than the
: Columbia U. Kermit team please tell me where I can find it.
:
This is the right forum.
But I admit it has turned out differently than expected when we first
set it up. I had hoped it would be more of a free-for-all where users
and developers would help each other out, people would post solutions
to problems, share scripts, etc, all in a polite and friendly way in
which no one need feel afraid of ridicule or flames. Nothing is
preventing it.
(Except perhaps the fear of spam? Personally, I just ignore it. As
one who posts to a number of newsgroups on a regular basis without
disguising my email address, I can tell you it's not that bad -- there
are a great many things in life that are bad enough to make even
unending torrents of the stupidest spam pretty innoucuous by comparison.)
Similarly for the script library -- all and sundry are heartily
invited to submit scripts for it. We have one regular contributor,
Dat Nguyen, whose stuff is at a fairly high level. As this exchange
points out, we also need lots practical down-to-earth examples --
"this is how I poll my franchises every night", "here is how I control
my milling machines", "here is how I submit pharmaceutical insurance
claims to the formulary", "here is how I check all my network boxes
and send pages when something's amiss", ... Perhaps we don't see such
things because they are business secrets, which is perfectly
understandable.
Nevertheless, if you have a script you'd like to publish, send it
in! If you have a Kermit-related story you'd like to share, this is
the place. There is an awful lot of effort being duplicated out there
behind closed doors -- this would be a good place to pool some resources.
- Frank