Re: [Oorexx-users] oorexx and putty/plink

[Ian S. W. <ian...@us...>]

Hi David.

Unless I'm very much mistaken plink *is* an interface to putty which enables
it to read from sysin and write to sysout.

Surely I should be able to use that?

i

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Received: 11:50 AM COT, 06/03/2009
From: David Ashley <dav...@gm...>
To: Open Object Rexx Users <oor...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-users] oorexx and putty/plink

> Ian S. Worthington wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'd like to use oorexx to drive a telnet client, such as putty's plink,
and
> > process the responses, but I can't see how to hook a single program in
the
> > input and output of that.
> >
> > What do I need as glue, if anything, between oorexx and plink?
> >
> >
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> Ian -
> 
> It is more complicated than that.
> 
> If the telnet program you are using provides a Rexx programmable 
> interface (an API) then you would use that to hook in Rexx exits to 
> perform processing for the I/O. But so far as I know there is not telnet 
> client program that exist that includes Rexx as a programmable interface.
> 
> So the only other alternative is to write a telnet client in Rexx. This 
> is not an easy task and requires intimate knowledge of terminal types 
> and other difficult topics. It is probably the reason nobody has stepped 
> up to this task.
> 
> Bottom line - unless you are willing to step up to the plate and write a 
> telnet client in Rexx or add Rexx API interfaces to an existing open 
> source telnet client I believe you are out of luck. But if you are 
> willing to take on this task I would be willing to supply you with what 
> support I can offer.
> 
> David Ashley
> 
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