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Looking for Scriptable asynchronous communication tools (lemmy.radio)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?

The closest so-far appears to be Kermit. It's been around since CP/M, but apparently there's still no centralised language reference and the syntax predates Perl.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh email? It’s not exactly exciting but there are loads of tools available for automating emails. Definitely asynchronous. Does it fit your needs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

No, it needs to be serial communication. My use case is talking to a CNC.

Edit: fat fingers: "ea" -> "to a"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol got it. Definitely not email then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That would be fun tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used expect a lifetime ago to reliably talk to a bunch of very strange ISDN modems.

https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html

I think something like expect also exists for more modern languages, but tcl is still easy enough to learn (just a little unusual, everything is a string)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's several recommendations for expect. I'll start digging. Thank you.