fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:51:37AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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
Yes, I know that now (it's even installed), but it wasn't to my
knowledge part of RH7 or RH8. It looks like it got added in RH9, but
without some announcement (or carefully reading through the entire
package list in my 'copious spare time') it went unnoticed (by me at
least) until now.
For a while the kermit project had a restrictive license on the
re-distribution of c-kermit (basically you had to have a license, and
that cost money). During that period, the linux distributors couldn't
distribute it. But it was always available at www.columbia.edu/kermit.
More recently the fine folks at the Kermit project have modified the
license tomake it permissible for free-software distributors to include
it in their packages.
I wanted to make a point of it because
1) I find minicom slightly frustrating to use
2) Others may have also not known of it's return
The "return" is only a return to the linux distributions. kermit
actually never went anywhere, has always been available from the
kermit project for anyone who wanted to go get it.
One can only use a chepo Indy as a router, it does not ever
possibilility for XFree
--
Peace is everywhere
http://gershwin.xs4all.nl
