Thanks, I think this is what I'll try to do. I hope its going to work. Hershel
On 1/7/10 5:12 AM, "Bernard Devlin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Herschel, > > I am unfamiliar with Hylafax. I don't think "shell" is going to cut > it for your needs. What you may need is "open process", "write to > process" and "read from process". Open process is kind of like > opening a non-visible terminal, where the state of the program opened > as a process persists throughout your read/write interactions with it. > > If you have a CLI client for hylafax for OS X & Windows, then you can > use that as the process to open. If the only CLI client you have for > hylafax is on the server, then you will need to run remote sessions to > the server. On OS X you could try 'talking' to the remote hylafax > client via ssh opened via "open process". If that works, you've got a > start. On Windows you would then have to use something like plink > (part of the Putty suite of ssh programs for windows). > > A final option might be to use the Expect program locally to talk to > the remote hylafax client. I have never used Expect, but I imagine it > would be more complex to use than "open process" + ssh. > > It's going to be convoluted, but it might work. > > Bernard > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Hershel Fisch <[email protected]> wrote: >> My server is FreeBSD or OSX, Client is OSX and Win. >> >>> What is the problem with writing multiple arguments? Do you mean >>> multiple successive shell commands, or multiple arguments to one >>> program? >> >> I want to write a GUI to connect to the server. Now I see in Rev, when a >> shell command is issued its sent and returns the prompt, if I need to >> respond to that prompt then it issues a different shell session and not a >> continuation of the previous one, e.g. I want to connect to a server or >> change user, put shell("su - userABC") it returns "password" that means that >> it wants a password to continue now where and who can I provide a password >> it should continue the current session? In terminal I just type it in and >> its done. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
