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 Message 15536 
 Alexander Grotewohl to Christian Sacks 
 Re: Adding kermit as a protocol option 
 08 Aug 23 14:09:00 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47
MSGID: 1:120/616 bf7ac651
REPLY: 2:250/5 187a000b
TZUTC: -0400
On 08 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...
 
 CS> I've installed `gkermit` on my linux host, and in protocol editor have
 CS> made a new "kermit" protocol, and the send/recv commands are like this;
 CS> 
 CS> Send Command ³ /usr/bin/gkermit -d /tmp/kermit-send.log -Ts %3
 CS> Recv Command ³ /usr/bin/gkermit -d /tmp/kermit-recv.log -Tr %3
 CS> 
 CS> With %3 as the filename(s), it seems to generate a file.lst on the
 CS> client end, and inside the file that it downloads just has a line for
 CS> each file with it's full filepath on the bbs, and doesn't download the
 CS> actual file...

having searched around the docs a bit it looks like kermit does batch xfers
differently than most bbs software would expect. you would likely just have to
turn 'batch' off in the protocol config and have it work one file at a time.
(batch toggles whether %3 is just one file by itself, or a file list file)
     
 CS> I looked at the default sexyz config which uses @%3 which I thought
 CS> might be required instead, but adding the @%3 instead just errors
 CS> immediately with the filename not being found according to the client.

@ is a sexyz parameter not a mystic one. if it finds that @ at the beginning
of the filename it will read that file line by line and send each of the files
listed. kermit doesn't support this so that's the problem.

if you're comfortable doing a little programming you could probably make a
script to read the lines in file.lst then run gkermit like it wants:

  /usr/bin/gkermit -d /tmp/kermit-send.log -Ts file1 file2 file3

(or maybe it needs -Ts in front of every file.. don't use it so i can't test
it..)

then for the mystic protocol you'd just have

  /wherever/yourprogram %3

and batch turned on.

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