Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Claude Jones wrote:
I'm trying to get a whole organization thinking Linux. Most users are
not computer experts, maybe almost the opposite. One thing that's
needed to make the the thing viable is a good GUI based dial-up
utility that can dial in to a VAX - that means minimally VT100
emulation. Ease of use and a friendly interface are important for
this crowd. I've looked and looked for such, but I'm not finding it.
It's probably staring me in the face --- suggestions, anyone?
One would think that if you've been around long enough to need a
terminal emulator to dial into a vax that operating in a character
environment wouldn't been a huge impediment... I'm not offering that
as a criticism it's just that I have been around that long and 99%
percent of the functionality I needed in a dialup application was
embodied in procom back in 1986, most of it, along with an almost
identical command set is available in minicom...
Back in the day there was an application, seyon distributed with X11
that was an X based dialup application... It used horrible openlook
widgets if I recall.
Your points are well taken, but it's not me that's the problem. That's
the point I was trying to make. Is procom the same thing as ProComm? I
still run ProComm on a Windows box. Great scripting capabilities and
keyboard emulation. I'll look at minicom. Thanks.
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
