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Article: 13011 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with C-Kermit, modems, Unix, dialling....
Date: 3 Dec 2001 00:12:55 GMT
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In article <3C0ABA43.20004@adelaide.edu.au>,
Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
: Maybe this is time to ask for yet another feature for C-Kermit - an
: interface to the system(3) call, which is part of XPG4 Unix. That way,
: serial board-specific command line utilities (such as Stallion's bcstty)
: could be run from within C-Kermit when kermit is defined as the login
: shell (system(3) is supposed to use sh and not the login shell from what
: I've read of the manual pages). NOPUSH should disable this of course,
: and there may be other security concerns to think about, but it would
: give C-Kermit some extra functionality and the ability to do more with
: serial hardware without having to know more about the hardware specifics.
:
Doesn't C-Kermit's RUN (!) command take care of this?
- Frank