proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (F. Solidus [Proff]) (06/15/91)
Lately, I tried (with ncomm 1.92) to read one line of a file - this is not possible, it seems Ncomm wants the whole bloody thing or none of it. There just do not exist the correct commands for this sort of thing (sigh). So I thought "ah ha! I'll use VLT" now asside from not having the VLT manual, it seems that VLT likes arexx, in fact it likes it so much, it won't work with out it. (sigh x 2) I don't have Arexx (sx3). Would some one tell me of a way of doing this (reading parts of a file) in a comms script ? I don't want to have to resort to C or BASIC to solve this. That reminds me, when I first obtained my Amiga modem, I downloaded the comms software using a c64, then connected the two modems to-gether and tried to transfer the program. So what I did was write a simple x-modem program in BASIC. Now the strange, strange, strange thing was that BASIC's input$() function would not belive in charactor #255. It took me forever to realise that ever char #255 had been stripped out of the file when it was sent. Eventually I resorted to just copying from the serial port to a file using CLI. However this too had it's problems, because when the file was sent, "copy" would only check for ctrl+c every buffer write - so I had to send a string like "end" from the c64, then many,many spaces, while holding down ctrl+c on the Amiga. Then edit off the spurious junk at the end of the file. - Proff -- The Mad Proffessor/The Force |In what distant deeps or skies "The Tiger" by W. Blake, stanza two - |Burnt the fire of thine eyes? SMART:proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au |On what wings dare he aspire? DUMB:...uunet!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!proff |What the hand dare seize the fire? -- The Mad Proffessor/The Force |In what distant deeps or skies "The Tiger" by W. Blake, stanza two - |Burnt the fire of thine eyes? SMART:proff@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au |On what wings dare he aspire? DUMB:...uunet!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!proff |What the hand dare seize the fire?
WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (06/18/91)
VLT works fine without ARexx present. Yes, it complains about not being able
to find rexx: (which is fixed in the current alpha - or did I fix earlier?)
but if you just assign rexx: to s:, things should be fine (this is by the
way what the 2.0 startup-sequence does). Unfortunately, without ARexx you
still will not be able to read a single line from a file, there is no built-in
command in VLT to do that. With ARexx that's easy of course.
Willy.
PS: Get the VLT manual...