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- Short: SLIP dialer; stdin/out terminal program
- Author: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
- Uploader: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
- Type: comm/tcp
-
-
- IPDial - serial device communication program
- ============================================
-
-
- IPDial is designed especially for creating a SLIP connection via the
- modem to a remote host: It can dial the remote hosts number, login
- into the host and initilize a SLIP connection. Configuring IPDial
- is rather easy, as it reads its command from a textfile.
-
- IPDial is best used from AmiTCP's startnet and stopnet scripts. This
- allows you to completely connect or disconnect by just typing the
- words "startnet" or "stopnet", respectively.
-
-
- 1.) Disclaimer: Copyrights, (No) Warranty
- -----------------------------------------
-
- This program is Copyright (C) 1994 Jochen Wiedmann
- Am Eisteich 9
- 72555 Metzingen
- Germany
-
- Phone: (0049) +7123 / 14881
- Mail: jochen.wiedmann@uni-tuebingen.de
-
-
- Permission is granted to make and distribute either verbatim and modified
- copies of this documentation and the program IPDial provided the copyright
- notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies and the "GNU
- General Public License" (in the file COPYING) is distributed as well.
-
- The author gives ABSOLUTELY NO warranty that the program described in this
- documentation and the results produced by them are correct. The author
- cannot be held responsible for ANY damage resulting from the use of this
- software.
-
-
- 2.) Installation
- ----------------
-
- Rather simple. Just copy the program to a place in your path and edit
- the two files "login.script" and "hangup.script". (See Script file
- syntax below for details.)
-
- You might want to enter the line
-
- IPDial login.script
-
- at the beginning of AmiTCP's startnet script. Thus you get a SLIP
- connection by simply typing startnet.
-
- Similar you could add the line
-
- IPDial hangup.script
-
- at the bottom of the stopnet script.
-
-
- 3.) Invocation
- --------------
-
- IPDial is started like this:
-
- IPDial SCRIPT,ECHO/S,VERBOSE/S,TERMINAL/S,DEVICE/K,PROTOCOL/K,UNIT/K/N
-
- What IPDial does, depends on the TERMINAL switch: If this is active,
- the arguments DEVICE, UNIT and PROTOCOL are used to open the
- serial.device. Once it is opened, the program acts as a very simple
- terminal program.
-
- If TERMINAL is omitted, the given SCRIPT is read and the commands
- of the script are executed line by line. (See below) The argument
- ECHO instructs IPDial to print the modems replies to stdout, while
- VERBOSE is used to show what the program's doing.
-
-
- 4.) Script file syntax
- ----------------------
-
- - Any line of the script file may contain only one command. In
- general command arguments are parsed with ReadArgs(), thus they
- may look like CLI command line arguments: The characters "" may
- surround a string which contains blanks.
-
- - Empty lines or lines beginning with a semicolon are assumed to
- be comments and thus ignored.
-
- - Lines may begin with a label, an alphanumeric word followed by
- a colon. Labels are ignored, except that they may be used as
- destinations for "goto" instructions. (Anyone said BASIC? Yes,
- it is. :-) Labels are case-sensitive.
-
- - This is the list of possible commands:
-
- DEVICE NAME/A,PROTOCOL,UNIT/K/N
- Opens the given device NAME with unit UNIT (Default 0).
- This must be compatible to the serial.device. PROTOCOL
- may be one of XONXOFF, RTSCTS, 7WIRE (Synonym for RTSCTS)
- or NONE. Note that explicitly requesting a protocol
- overwrites the defaults set by the Derial preferences
- program.
-
- The DEVICE command should in general be the first command
- of each script.
-
- SET BAUD/N/K,DATABITS/N/K,STOPBITS/N/K,BUFSIZE/N/K,PARITY/K
- This command is used to modify the serial.device parameters.
- Note, that these overwrite the Serial preferences. Possible
- parameters are:
- BAUD baud rate
- DATABITS number of databits
- STOPBITS number of stopbits
- BUFSIZE read buffer size
- PARITY one of ODD, EVEN or NONE
-
- SHOWPARMS
- Writes the current serial.device settings to stdout.
-
- ECHO ARGS/M
- This will write the given ARGS to stdout. Note, that these
- strings may contain patterns like \r (Carriage Return),
- \n (Line Feed) and \\ (Backslash :-) The arguments are
- separated by blanks, when they are printed.
-
- Note that ECHO does not write any Line Feeds or Carriage
- Returns unless you explicitly request it with the respective
- patterns.
-
- SEND ARGS/M
- This command sends the given strings to the serial.device
- using DoIO(). These strings may contain the same patterns
- as described with the ECHO command. Unlike ECHO the arguments
- aren't separeted by blanks.
-
- The words given with ARGS may contain patterns like $HOST or
- ${HOST}: These are replaced by the respective environment
- variable. (Empty string, if the variable doesn't exist.)
- $$ represents the $ character itself.
-
- DELAY SECS/A
- Delays the given number of seconds.
-
- WAIT TIMEOUT/K/N/A,ARGS/M
- This command waits until either one of the given strings
- is read from the serial.device or the number of seconds
- given by TIMEOUT has gone.
-
- A variable called STATUS indicates what happened: It contains
- either -1 for timeout or the number of the string that was
- read, beginning with 0. This variable may be used by the
- ON statement.
-
- ON STATUS GOTO LABELS/M
- There's currently only one version of the ON command.
- An ON command must follow a WAIT command. ON reads the
- value of the STATUS variable and jumps to the first
- one, if STATUS is -1, to the second, if STATUS is 0 and
- so on. A typical use of WAIT/ON looks like this:
-
- WAIT TIMEOUT=10 "Login:" "Busy"
- ON STATUS GOTO TimeOut Login Busy
-
- TimeOut:
- ECHO "Timeout happened, aborting.\n"
- EXIT 10
-
- Busy:
- ECHO "Remote busy, delaying...\n"
- DELAY 25
- ECHO "Trying again.\n"
- GOTO DialAgain
-
- Login:
- ; Execute the login procedure
-
- You do not need to supply a label for any wait string:
- This will suppress jumping and instead continue on
- the next line.
-
- GOTO LABEL/A
- Jumps to the given label
-
- TERMINAL
- Enters terminal mode: What you enter at the keyboard will
- be sent to the serial.device and likewise the program will
- display any input from the serial.device to you. The
- TERMINAL command will be finished, if you enter EOF
- (Ctrl-\).
-
- EXIT RESULT
- Terminates the program, returns the given RESULT. (Defaults
- to 0.)
-
- Commands are case-insensitive.
-
- See the scrips Login.IPDial and Hangup.IPDial as examples.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 5012 1997 60.1% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/Buffer.c
- 17982 6993 61.1% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/COPYING
- 4401 1674 61.9% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/DeviceIO.c
- 3549 1211 65.8% 15-Mar-95 09:55:26 ipdial/DMakefile
- 1618 713 55.9% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/Hangup.IPDial
- 32780 17802 45.6% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/IPDial
- 15811 4862 69.2% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/IPDial.c
- 2783 1137 59.1% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/IPDial.h
- 6505 2949 54.6% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/IPDial.readme
- 3817 1310 65.6% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/Login.IPDial
- 15396 4361 71.6% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/Serial.c
- 2022 1028 49.1% 02-Mar-95 19:03:10 ipdial/StrReadArgs.c
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- 111676 46037 58.7% 21-Mar-95 14:26:04 12 files
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