need a hyper-terminal like GUI based dial up utiity

[Joel Jaeggli]

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.


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