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From: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>
Subject: No Screen Output During Scripted Transfers ?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:39:12 GMT
Organization: Sirius Intelligent Doors
Message-ID: <38909fa6.6586606@news.demon.co.uk>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
I have an annoying but non-critical problem with scripted Kermit file
transfers not displaying anything (at all) to the screen. The problem is
two-fold :
a) the user has no idea what is going on while the transfers
are running - for all they know the software could have
crashed.
b) when I'm testing the scripts while logged in over a remote
dialup link, the lack of screen output causes the
dialin server to assume my session is idle (the file
transfers are long) and it times me out !
I'm using C-Kermit 6.0.1 on HPUX 10.20 (supplied as standard with HPUX) to
initiate transfers to & from a remote system (another HPUX as it happens).
The purpose of writing the script is so that completely
non-computer-literate users can run file transfers by selecting an option
on a menu.
I chose to use "SET TRANSFER DISPLAY CRT" to get an updating display output
to the screen as each file is transferred, but although this display
appears if the individual commands are input at a Kermit command prompt, if
I script the commands then *nothing* appears on screen during
"SEND"/"RECEIVE" command execution. I wrote a file containing the required
commands, and am feeding it into Kermit using "kermit < myscript.scr" at a
Unix command prompt.
I've tried "SET TRANSFER DISPLAY FULLSCREEN", and "SET QUIET OFF", but
these don't help. I'm guessing that screen output is deliberately
suppressed during script execution, on the assumption that there is nobody
there to see the display. Is there some magic switch or option which
switches screen output back on if wanted ?
If anyone can help here I'll be very grateful.
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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