Telnet: delay and timeout problem

[vadim]

Hello,

We've got some troubles using telnet action in VBP 5.7. We have a several scripts on the linux machine that executes checkout and make. By default Timeout is set to 60 and Delay to 1000. Script performs comparatively lengthy actions, and we found that telnet client in VBP brakes connection before the script is done with a blank response. After a few tests we found out that constructions such as sleep 3 with delay less than 3 (sec) will be failed with the same response. On the other hand, if we'd set time out to 1 minute for example, than we should wait this time for every response, even for logon. Recommended 0 values aren't help either.

Could you help us, with the solution how to implement correct step, to execute such script:

logon:
name
password:
pass
bash prepareandcheckout.sh
!customerror
bash compileandmake.sh
!customerror

Where shell scripts average output response are varied.

Thanks in advance,
Vadim

[kinook]

VBP v5 is no longer being supported or updated.
http://www.kinook.com/support.html
http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?threadid=1315

[vadim]

Yep, this is the bug of VB 5.7. In new version available all works fine, but is there any patch to fix it? Our company do not want to upgrade because of many projects using old BLD format. Really the worst of all new VB can't work with older file format i.e. share files with 5.7 version.

Could you provide us patch or the way we have to patch net library to fix telnet bug?

Thanks,
Vadim

[kinook]

The bug was not in VBP itself but a third party component that it uses, and the newer component is not compatible with VBP v5. v6 can open v5 projects without a problem, so why would upgrading be an issue (especially since AFAIK you have only one VBP license, so there would be no need to share w/ v5.7)?