need a hyper-terminal like GUI based dial up utiity

[Claude Jones]

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.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA