rad@genco.uucp (Bob Daniel) (10/09/90)
I need a comm program with a robust scripting language that will be distruted to several hundred sites. I have 'TERM' by Century Software but it costs $500 per site. I have 'expect' but it will not do what we need. I need something under $200/site. I understand ProComm is on UNIX. How much is it? Anyone have their number? Any other comm programs out there with scripting languages? Oh yeah, I also have XCOMM but the scripting language is too limited.
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (10/10/90)
In article <57@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes: > I need a comm program with a robust scripting language that will be distruted > to several hundred sites. I have 'TERM' by Century Software but it costs $500 > per site. I have 'expect' but it will not do what we need. Really? I find this surprising. If TERM is too expensive and expect is too inflexible and XCOMM is too limited, perhaps you'd better explain what features you need so that you have a chance of getting a reasonable answer. ---Dan
jpr@jpradley.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley) (10/18/90)
In article <57@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes: >I need a comm program with a robust scripting language that will be distruted >to several hundred sites. I have 'TERM' by Century Software but it costs $500 >per site. I have 'expect' but it will not do what we need. I need something >under $200/site. I understand ProComm is on UNIX. How much is it? Anyone >have their number? Any other comm programs out there with scripting languages? > >Oh yeah, I also have XCOMM but the scripting language is too limited. Several generations after XCOMM, there's XCMALT. Scripting language improvements are but the least of its features. I'm the "curator" thereof, and it's being dispatched to you even as I write this. ---------- Once upon a time, Eric Coe wrote XCOMM; Larry Gensch wrote XCOMM 2.0; Fred Buck enhanced it to XCMALT. XCMALT is currently at version 2.9 I fixed loose ends, condensed the documentation, tightened the code. Put/take now function, and allow an optional second filename for the target file. The dialing directory adjusts to the length of your screen. Startup and user scripts and the phonelist are sought in your current directory, home directory, or a default library directory. Tty output is now unbuffered. Getty/LCK-file support allow dialing out on an enabled line. The baud rate choices now extend from 300 to 19200. More inverse video for error messages. As before, you can: send a modem BREAK set 7-bit masking or 8-bit masking up/download using ZMODEM XMODEM/YMODEM (if you have rx/sz) CompuServe Quick-B Protocol plain old ASCII name your capture file toggle your capture file on or off upload from a file on disk dial from a directory of numbers, optionally using a script which can, for example, log you on to CIS, get you into a Forum, start reading messages or upload replies escape to a shell attach the stdin and stdout of a system command to the modem port and other goodies. Buy it, you'll like it; at any rate, it's free. ----------- -- Jean-Pierre Radley HIGH-Q jpr@jpradley CIS: 72160,1341
wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct18.053036.4432@jpradley.uucp> jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >In article <57@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes: > >Once upon a time, Eric Coe wrote XCOMM; Larry Gensch wrote XCOMM 2.0; Fred Buck >enhanced it to XCMALT. >XCMALT is currently at version 2.9 > > >Buy it, you'll like it; at any rate, it's free. > >----------- >-- > Jean-Pierre Radley HIGH-Q jpr@jpradley CIS: 72160,1341 And where does one obtain a copy? -- Bill Meahan WA8TZG |"The freedom of human beings is not a condition uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!wwm |but a task. What an absence of shackles means |is our duty to know and to establish our own "I do NOT speak for anyone |limits. It is often more difficult to be free
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/21/90)
In article <1990Oct18.164306.29018@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan) writes:
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Jean-Pierre Radley HIGH-Q jpr@jpradley CIS: 72160,1341
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Pete
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