On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:58:36AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
Ben Steeves wrote:
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:41, Colin Burgess wrote:
What are people using to access a serial port?
Kermit. The be-all-end-all of serial comms packages. I use it to talk
to the Lights-Out-Management consoles on our Sun boxes and the L1 on our
SGI box (it's a cheapie... no L2).
They have kermit again?! Yay! I thought I was stuck with minicom... Sweet familiar kermit... the serial port's long lost friend.
When have we ever been without it? One could always go to the kermit web site and grab the source for c-kermit, which has pretty much always built on Linux. (and nearly every other unix-like box, too!)
There was a period of time that (to my knowledge) it just vanished from Redhat. I tried keeping up with compiling it for a little while, but then I had a number of years during which I didn't need it. When I did need it again, I couldn't find it and all the docs said to use minicom, so I (erroneously, it appears) wrote it off and consigned myself to minicom.
Suns have (and still do) use 'tip' instead.
