serial util?

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

fred smith wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:51:37AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
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>>Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
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>>>>fred smith wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:58:36AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
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>>>>>>Ben Steeves wrote:
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>>>>>>>On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:41, Colin Burgess wrote:
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>>>>>>>>What are people using to access a serial port?
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>>>>>>>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).
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>>>>>>They have kermit again?! Yay! I thought I was stuck with minicom...
>>>>>>Sweet familiar kermit... the serial port's long lost friend.
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>>>>>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!)
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>>>>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.
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>>>$ whichcd kermit
>>>You appear to be running Fedora Core 1.
>>>I'll search for rpms for that version.
>>>Searching for kermit...
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>>>CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.i386.rpm
>>>SOURCE-CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.src.rpm
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>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
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>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.
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