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Inspyre

I am new to VDS. Shocked

I want to be able to write a VDS program to dial another modem out of HYPER TERMINAL (Not Dial-up Networking). I just need to establish a connection with modems with no default protocol.

Sending Key Strokes to Hyper Terminal works fine. But I am having difficulty in managing error control. I can't figure out how to get the modem status values from HyperTerminal back into my VDS program.

Is there a way to do this? Sad

Suggestions please!

Inspyre · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 11:43 am Post subject:

Has anyone done any VDS prgramming with modems? (I.e. Dial-out, hang up, connect speed display, retry if busy)

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

Well I made a few weeks ago a VDS app to control a Telnet session. All the logging was done by the Telnet application that would write a log in text format. My VDS app would load in a list every second that log. It would then check every second if there was certain matches in the list like "Disconnect" or any pertinent messages I needed to trap. That way I could know what was going on with the telnet session. I needed to automate a telnet session and start certain tasks on the unix server as well as on the Windows PC. I perfectly emulated a Telnet session with a VDS app.

I dont know about Hyperterminal enought to help you. Is there any auto-logging that writes to a text file ?

Inspyre · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 12:32 pm Post subject:

Yes, HyperTerminal Has a way of logging the session to a file. Since my post I have written a VB app to replace HyperTerminal. It's a cut down slimeline version of HyperTerminal with logging capabilities.

I'll try your wonderful suggestion! Mind sharing a code snippet?

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

If I have a chance Ill post a cut down version of my application.. Ill let you know.