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[Hershel Fisch]

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" <bdrunrev at gmail.com> 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 <hershrev at syp2u4c.com> 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.
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