Async comms program
 

Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
comms program that supports scripting. I know that ProComm is still
there. HyperTerminal Pro from Hilgraeve looks a bit opaque.

Anything else available?.

We've had a look at good ole freebie Bitcom which comes close.

Ideally we'd like to be able to fire up the program, run a script,
then shut it down so we can run another program to process what was
downloaded. BitCom doesn't seem to have any way for exiting the script
to shut the program.

IB

Re: Async comms program
 

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:00:00 GMT, Ian Boag <fred@noplace.com> wrote in
<news:42618981.6075910@news.inspire.net.nz>:

> Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
> sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
> comms program that supports scripting. I know that ProComm is still
> there. HyperTerminal Pro from Hilgraeve looks a bit opaque.
>
> Anything else available?.
>
> We've had a look at good ole freebie Bitcom which comes close.
>
> Ideally we'd like to be able to fire up the program, run a script,
> then shut it down so we can run another program to process what was
> downloaded. BitCom doesn't seem to have any way for exiting the script
> to shut the program.
>
> IB

Telix. Does scripts.

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Re: Async comms program
 

In article <42618981.6075910@news.inspire.net.nz>,
fred@noplace.com (Ian Boag) wrote:

>Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
>sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
>comms program that supports scripting.

I seem to recall some DOS-specific versions of Kermit were quite
powerful in that regard.

Re: Async comms program
 

Kermit

Ian Boag wrote:
> Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
> sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
> comms program that supports scripting. I know that ProComm is still
> there. HyperTerminal Pro from Hilgraeve looks a bit opaque.
>
> Anything else available?.
>
> We've had a look at good ole freebie Bitcom which comes close.
>
> Ideally we'd like to be able to fire up the program, run a script,
> then shut it down so we can run another program to process what was
> downloaded. BitCom doesn't seem to have any way for exiting the script
> to shut the program.
>
> IB

Re: Async comms program
 

Ian Boag wrote:

> Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
> sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
> comms program that supports scripting. I know that ProComm is still
> there. HyperTerminal Pro from Hilgraeve looks a bit opaque.
>
> Anything else available?.
>
> We've had a look at good ole freebie Bitcom which comes close.
>
> Ideally we'd like to be able to fire up the program, run a script,
> then shut it down so we can run another program to process what was
> downloaded. BitCom doesn't seem to have any way for exiting the script
> to shut the program.
>
> IB

Try terraterm:

http://www.terraterm.com

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Re: Async comms program
 

Peter Lowrie wrote:
> Ian Boag wrote:
>
>
>>Here's a blast from the past. We need to regularly poll a couple of
>>sound meters over radio modem links. So we need a good old fashioned
>>comms program that supports scripting. I know that ProComm is still
>>there. HyperTerminal Pro from Hilgraeve looks a bit opaque.
>>
>>Anything else available?.
>>
>>We've had a look at good ole freebie Bitcom which comes close.
>>
>>Ideally we'd like to be able to fire up the program, run a script,
>>then shut it down so we can run another program to process what was
>>downloaded. BitCom doesn't seem to have any way for exiting the script
>>to shut the program.
>>
>>IB
>
>
> Try terraterm:
>
> http://www.terraterm.com
>

That won't get you there.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

I used to use Teraterm for years connecting from home to various *nix
boxen. If I remember right, had a good range of emulators built in.