Hi prabir.

16-Jan-04 12:25:06, prabir senapati wrote to 
Roy.J..Tellason!1.270.615.0{at}filegat


 ps> From: prabir senapati 

 ps> Hi, there... I need a solution ! Iam ought to develop a CLI for a
 ps> Network device (h/w) in C. Can any one help me out  how this can
 ps> be started & accomplished or  point me to good references


firs up you're going to need to access the hardware over the network in so
that the CLI is available to remote users, telnet is the normal way to do
that.

you could look at the sources for other telnet-compatable network CLI
interfaces like softweare which provides service like POP3, NNTP, SMTP etc.

 ps> Tell me in general about what CLI programming is

command-line-interfacce, like the dos prompt, or SMTP, etc...

step 1:  fgets(buffer,siz,somehandle) ; if input_error quit.
step 2:  make sense of the contents of "buffer".
step 3:  act on the results of step 2
step 4:  if not finished repeat from step 1

 -=> Bye <=-

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