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Expect, Send, and dropped characters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M.S. Petrovic)
Fri May 12 08:46:15 1995
From: msp@carpediem.org (M.S. Petrovic)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Net Channel)
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 05:34:06 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-to: msp@tyrell.net (M.S. Petrovic)
I'm using chat as a front end to establishing a connection to a remote
server host. Unfortunately, characters dropped from the *middle* of the
"expect" strings often prevent the negotiation from going to successful
completion. I have seen many references to using only the trailing
portion of the expect string, should a leading portion be lost, but have
never seen reference to characters within the string being dropped.
These observations above are based on a reading of /usr/adm/messages
during the chat script converstation.
a) What in general can be done about characters interior to an expect
string being dropped? (Nothing?)
b) Most puzzling is: Why do I never see dropped characters, leading,
trailing, or otherwise, dropped from the same host when I simply dialup
using kermit or minicom???
Thank you.
--
Mark S. Petrovic
Lake Tapawingo, MO USA
msp@interstate.net
