On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Bevan C. Bennett wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > 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. $ whichcd kermit You appear to be running Fedora Core 1. I'll search for rpms for that version. Searching for kermit... CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.i386.rpm SOURCE-CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.src.rpm -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
