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[haloway13]

Thinking outside the box, but hoping that I am still in it...

Is it possible to have tintin "monitor" a PC comm port. I am in an environment where we treat a dumb VT terminal as a printer and send information that needs to be monitored and is very time critical to our operation. We have the ability to "print" the same to a PC comm port and "monitor" this traffic in hyperterm. Can I get tintin to do the same?

Interfacing tintin in this manner would then give me the ability to have audio triggered by specific events and/or hook up a flashing light to draw peoples attention to this important information.

Thoughts or questions?

Thanks!
Haloway13

[Scandum]

No idea about comm ports, but if you can log the info to file it's possible to use:

#run bla tail -f logfile.log

Which would make tintin tail the log file and it should subsequently allow triggers.

[gp1628]

Im beginning to look at pretty much the same thing.
You might try that port since many info ports use basic telnet connections.

In my case Im particularly interested in the RUN command allowing another program to run with full trigger abilities. The ability to run SSH and trigger it will be great. Instead of a hundred different scripts to watch a log, or sleep then run a netstat, or check the uptime or df or freemem commands. I can have one connection running seperate output windows. Doing a tail-f of system logs, using tickers to run system check commands. I can have highlights. I can have specific lines logged. I can #system sound commands for really important items. Or #system an email to the gateway to text-message my cell phone.

Gandalf Parker