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- It's been a long time since I played with this.
-
- As I recall, you should do an:
- execute sercli-run
-
- ...from a dir where there is a desirable `sercli_config' file, and from
- which the sercli binary can be found as a command (i.e., either put sercli
- on your path, or in the same dir).
-
- Provided you have sercli in your command path, this directory will do quite
- well. The sercli_config in this directory assumes a 9600bps serial data
- rate; if you don't have a high-speed modem or data compression in your
- modem, you probably cannot talk to your modem at that speed.
-
- BEFORE you do that, make sure you know what's going to happen (e.g., read
- this text file and/or look at the scripts that will run).
-
-
- Basically, what sercli-run does is this:
- a RemCLI is Run; it will attach itself to a FIFO:rkr/#? stream.
-
- There will be a short delay (I don't remember why, but there is a 1
- second Wait in the sercli-run script).
-
- sercli will then be run; it will look for a sercli_config. You should
- therefore either copy an existing sercli_config here, write a new one,
- or `execute sercli-run' from some other dir.
-
- After another pause, a shell is `quietly' created with rlaunch (see
- doc/sercli.doc for more info). It will `execute sercli-startup' script
- through FIFO:rkr/rwkecs, so Execute must be on your path and
- sercli-startup must be where Execute can find it.
-
- sercli-startup then does this:
- Calls ARexx to `do_mail'. The name, `do_mail' implies a LOT more than
- do_mail.rexx really does; it was a toy I started for picking up mail
- from BBSses (withOUT doing network-style links) -- i.e., a scripted
- terminal with few terminal features but tremendous script POTENTIAL.
- See do_mail.rexx for more info.
-
- Wait 5 seconds (not sure why again)
-
- EndCLI. This is IMPORTANT; if this is not done, then when the script
- ends, you will have a wayward CLI prompt going out through FIFO. This
- is launched very much as if you had used a NewShell or NewCLI command
- through FIFO:, so you must close down the new Shell/CLI process when
- you are done. See rlaunch description in doc/sercli.doc for more info.
-