If you can, point a browser to http://www.nic.com/~cannon/handson.html
for what I modestly hope is a pretty exhaustive introduction to Yarn
and the cottage industry that has sprung up around it. It's hard to
tell whether I'm starting simple enough, so a fresh viewpoint from
a self-confessed innocent would be appreciated!
> I much prefer to read using Yarn because of its sophisticated threading
> and message handling capabilities. But is there a mechanism whereby
> I may continue to use Yarn if in the
> future I no longer have access to a shell account?
If you can't run uqwk from a shell, there's a PPP program called souper
that will fulfill the same function, and probably better than messing
about with mailbox format.
The page above has hot links to download it -- among other stuff.
> As I know little about Unix, I wonder if it is difficult to write the Unix
> script so that Uqwk would make the Soup packets for Yarn?
Sample Unix shell scripts for uqwk, DOS .bat files, and one proprietary
terminal script provided and (I hope) explained in some detail.
(By the way -- I'd love to have someone translate my Procomm script
for other popular packages, such as Wincomm or Qmodem or even Kermit --
I know a lot of you have your own versions, but to avoid confusion I
need versions *that will interoperate with my DOS and Unix scripts*.
Is there anybody out there who's willing to just clone my code and
NOT reinvent the wheel?)
> Sorry for all the questions. Frankly, I do not feel sufficiently
> literate in computer matters to post questions of this type to the
> Yarn list.
Naw, we NEED someone to keep us honest -- sometimes I think
we're all getting 'WAY too inbred around here. :-)
-- Kevin Martin <cannon@nic.com>