Dialing in and streams

[mjg01]

I have a client that will be dialing into me and will be sending a stream of data. I'll have to break the data into files and perform various acknowledgements and checksums on it. How do you configure Procomm to accept a dial-in and is using comgetc the best approach to parsing the stream?

Thanks,

M

 

[knob]

You will want to use these set statements at the beginning of your script:

set modem acceptcall data ON
set modem acceptcall fax ON (not necessary, but I usually turn it off in case adaptive answer is a problem with a particular modem and/or no fax calls are expected)
set modem autoanswer PW

You will then want a when command that looks like this:

when $CARRIER call proc_name

where the procedure proc_name will be called whenever the value of $CARRIER changes. It would look something like this:

if $CARRIER == 0
return
else
;Connected, perform commands here
endif

As for parsing the data, I usually like to use either the capture or snapshot command to save the data to a text file and parse that line by line. If that won't work well for you, I recommend using rget instead of comgetc.


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[mjg01]

Thanks for the advice and nice site by the way. Acceptcall and rget look like they're exactly what I need.

mjg

 

[mjg01]

Hello,

My main proc goes something like this:

proc main
set modem acceptcall data ON
set modem acceptcall fax OFF
set modem autoanswer PW

when $CARRIER call startTransfer

while 1
yield
endwhile
endproc

However, when a client dials in, Procomm connects but never transfers control to the startTransfer proc. Any ideas why the when command doesn't fire?

Thanks,

mjg

 

[knob]

What does the startTransfer procedure look like?


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