Scripting THROUGH terminal?
Scripting THROUGH terminal?
- Subject: Scripting THROUGH terminal?
- From: Dave Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:31:59 -0700
Greetings list,
I am a newbie to AppleScript and am trying to automate a company
procedure. We are using (or starting to use) the Mac Terminal app (in
Jaguar) as an emulator, using telnet to connect to the company server
and running the business software through it.
I want to send commands through the OPENED terminal window to the
business software, but can't seem to figure out how to reference the
opened terminal. I can send commands to an unnamed window, which causes
a new terminal window to be created, but that doesn't help much (unless
I decide to try to create the telnet connection in that new window, but
I already have the window running when I want the script to run.
Closing the window to run the script to reopen the connection seems
clumsy, especially since it's not me running the end product but
another company employee). How would I reference a terminal window
that's already opened on my desktop? We've set the title of the window,
but that doesn't seem to do much good (or am I simply missing something
important here?) We open the telnet connection using a .term file we've
saved, but I don't see how that will help either. I could try using the
tty of the process, but 1) that isn't working either and 2) I'm not
guaranteed to have the same tty from one day to the next, since the
window MAY BE closed after hours and restarted first thing in the
morning (not guaranteed, although the connection will be dropped after
a timeout).
I've found docs detailing how to create a CGI with AppleScript, surely
what I want to do is much easier than that?!? So what's the trick?
Thanking you all in advance for any help or insight,
Dave Stewart
Aqua-flo (Goleta)
email@hidden
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