crom@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator) (03/01/89)
Has anyone modified Kermit so that it can be used as an interactive protocol?
We need to have an ibm pc talking to a unix machine over a dial-up and I
was thinking of modifying Kermit. There will be a lot of small data transfers
going in both directions. Has this already been done or does anyone know of
a better solution? Thanks.
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Jack Dixon, AT&T
{ ...!att!dopsa!jcd, jcd@dopsa.att.com }les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (03/02/89)
In article <2546@cuuxb.ATT.COM> att!spock!jcd (Jack Dixon) writes: >Has anyone modified Kermit so that it can be used as an interactive protocol? >We need to have an ibm pc talking to a unix machine over a dial-up and I >was thinking of modifying Kermit. There will be a lot of small data transfers >going in both directions. Do you mean you want a terminal session with packet protocol or just something a little different than what the kermit server usually does? I've wanted the latter myself - something like having the the ability to give REMOTE HOST commands to the server from a script with the ability to seperatly redirect the command input/output from/to files on the local machine and have the command exit status returned as a variable in the script. No, I don't know if any such thing exists. You can sort of fake it by transferring the input file, running a script on the host that sends the command output, error and status to files which are sent back, but it's not quite the same... Les Mikesell