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- From: Junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu (Peter D. Junger)
- Subject: Re: Kermit and down-loading from PACS
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:58:27 GMT
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- In article <NOTABENE%92082602445380@TAUNIVM> Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM> writes:
- >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:37:46 EDT
- >From: Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM>
- >Subject: Kermit
-
- >Gerald Schlaback correctly points to the fact that Kermit scripts don't
- >know anything about terminal emulation; they just read the incoming data
- >stream, escape codes and all. This is not a problem when setting up a
- >dialogue (for sign-on, for example), since it simply looks for the characters
- >you want, but the screen-dump would be meaningless to a script, since it has
- >no concept of a screen.
-
- >Session logging also logs everything, so that the resulting file isn't a pure
- >data file, but can be replayed as a terminal session. If your library has
- >a line-by-line mode (no emulation), I suppose that would work.
-
- I am not sure that I understand the context of this discussion, but I
- suspect it may have to do with a problem that I recently suffered from
- using, not Kermit, but the version of Telnet that is supplied to us at
- CWRU. Our new electonic library catalogue--or PAC--is an INNOPAC system
- which requires the user to run a VT100 terminal or terminal emulator, and
- when one records (logs) a session the resulting record is filled with VT100
- droppings (escape codes) and is unreadable. This same behaviour is
- exhibited by NOTIS electronic catalogs and at least one other whose name I
- forget. At CWRU they have installed an INNOPAC function called EXPORT that
- allows one to download bibliographic records without the escape codes, but
- one still cannot keep a readable record of one's search. I have therefore
- written a filter which filters out (after interpreting where necessary) the
- VT100 escape codes.
-
- The filter seems to work, though it could use a few more features
- which I will add when I get time. If anyone would like to beta-test it--
- what a horrible verb!--I'll be happy to tell you how to get a copy.
-
-
- Peter D. Junger
-
- Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, OH
- Internet: JUNGER@SAMSARA.LAW.CWRU.Edu -- Bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU
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