Hello,

I would like to hear about a (telnet) terminal for Linux that can run VB scripts. The need is for configuration of a target board. I like secureCRT very much, but I can not use it from a Linux workstation.

Any suggestions?

Thank you and best regards,

Evi

It looks like there is a beta test version of SecureCRT for Linux.

Your question seems self-contradictory. Terminals typically don't run scripts, especially VB (assume you mean Visual BASIC) scripts. Most Linux distros come with at least xterm, which is a usable terminal. Scripts are run by some kind of interpreter, such as a shell like Bash, or many of the common scripting languages such as Perl, Python, AWK, etc. There may be a Linux-based interpreter for VB scripts, but I couldn't name one. There is the Mono project/package/product which I'm lead to believe is a work-alike for some kinds of Windows-ish software development.

--- rod.

Thanks.
You are right, I didn't explain myself properly. Running bash/python scripts from terminal is not what I meant. When I use a private application that expects input from user, those script's interpreter might not always work.
This is why I gave the secureCRT example that have the option "run script", and just flushes strings (I guess to the standard input).

Hop I explained myself better this time

No, not really, but I'll take some guesses at what you mean. First of all, are you talking about something to do with Windows (VB?) or Linux? Or are you trying to use one OS to communicate with applications running on the other OS? That is the only scenario in which 'secureCRT' seems to make any sense.

Another possibility is that you are simply talking about a terminal application to host a shell for running your commandline applications on Linux. There is the ubiquitous xterm as I mentioned earlier, and if you use KDE, then you probably also have konsole. The Gnome desktop includes a similar tool; I think it is called simply 'terminal'. Or, does the tool you seek need to have some sort of communication component? Do you need to login to a different host to run something? If so, you probably need to use ssh or telnet to make the connection. These run from a commandline shell, which would be hosted in one of the aforementioned terminals. Maybe you need some kind of scriptable terminal, such as C-Kermit?

I don't know what you mean by 'private application'. Is this simply some program/script you wrote yourself? Does it run on Linux or Windows? If Linux, is it a GUI application, or one that runs in a text-mode console? What exactly do you mean by 'those script's interpreter might not always work.'? 'Not working' can mean a lot of different things; you need to be quite a bit more specific.

Please read and answer these questions to supply information for us to help you.

--- rod.