Hello, Here is the problem |---------------| |---------------| | | | | | | | | | SUSE 10.1 |<-------internet------>| MS Machine | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---------------| |---------------| | | Kermit | |---------------| | | | | | Cash Registers| | | | | |---------------| I have SUSE Linux 10.1 and I am able to ssh and scp to the machines. I need to automate getting all the files from the MS machines to a remote site to process them. But I can not seem to remember how I used to run via ssh kermit remotely. The machines with some version of MS Windows, most have Windows XP. I use kermit to talk with their store registers. The machines have a purchased copy of MS Kermit 3.16. My mskermit.ini file on these machines has set port 1 set baud 9600 PAUSE 2 REMOTE LOGIN RAIS PAUSE 2 GET datafile PAUSE 2 GET datafile1 ... EXIT till I have all the files. I thought I could use kermit via ssh to talk to the machines and directly transfer the files. Did not work. I then setup cygwin and copSSH. I am able to ssh to the machines and then I use scp to copy a mskermit.ini with the commands I need it to run. I then am able to ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 cd /directory/files ./kermit ... scp -p file user@192.168.0.125:/work/directory/save/files/ or scp -p user@192.168.0.125:/directory/files /directory/to/save/files/ and all the files are downloaded. So I am able to scp to/form machine or I am able to scp to/from remote ms box to linux box. But I am not able to get my scripts to remotely run kermit on the ms box to download files from the cash registers to the ms box so I can then scp the files. When I try to run ssh -luser 192.168.0.200 c:/kermit/backoffice/kermit user@192.168.5.200's password: IBM-PC MS-DOS Kermit: 3.16 4 May 1999 Copyright (C) Trustees of Columbia University 1982, 1999. Type ? or HELP for help MS-Kermit>^A^A^A ?Text exceeded available buffer capacity MS-Kermit> And I am back at the prompt on the remote box and it has not run the mskermit.ini file. There has to be a way to automate via ssh and run the kermit on the MS Windows machines and then scp the files. The only step I have been uable to get working is to run kermit remotely and get the files to the MS machine. Any ideas. I know I have done this in the past but I can not seem to remember how and all my googleing has not brought up a solutions. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047