smith%eri.DECnet@MGHCCC.HARVARD.EDU ("ERI::SMITH") (07/30/87)
>Our communications people will gladly make a direct connection from the >Outdial service to a port on the VAX. What I need is a program that I can >run that will attach itself to that port, send commands to it, and read the >material coming from it and send it to my terminal and a file. Since DSIN >and many bulletin boards don't have Kermit like packages, The program has >to be completely self-supporting, no handshaking. --GRAHAM@DRCVAX.ARPA If you have DECNet, SET HOST/DTE TXA3/LOG=CAPTURED.TXT may be all you need. I want to call your (and the net's) attention to HOST32, a VAX communications program written by Stuart R. Fuller. This was written primarily to facilitate use of the CompuServe VAX SIG and supports CompuServe "B" protocol, but, like much communications software, it also includes simple ASCII capture. CompuServe is a commercial service familiar to personal computer users. It has a VAX SIG that deserves to be better known. There is a reasonable volume of interesting stuff in their files and knowledgeable people exchanging messages. Obviously you can download the source for HOST32 from CompuServe. I am still unclear as to whether INFO-VAX has any central archives (a la INFO-MAC) to which sources can be posted. If there is, and someone can tell me the submission procedure, I would be glad to post it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel P. B. Smith ARPA: smith%eri.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu Eye Research Institute CompuServe: 74706,661 20 Staniford Street Telephone (voice): 617 742-3140 Boston, MA 02114 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."--Thoreau ------