>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: Clint> Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I Clint> wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem Clint> cable to my ttyS0 port. Thanks, Ben> Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find Ben> minicom a very suitable replacement (I like it even more so than Ben> those programs). I use it to connect to my sparc attached to a Ben> serial connection. A crippling problem with minicom is that it cannot be used noninteractively (i.e. from a script). It expects a terminal device to draw its windows onto and can't live without it :-( Yes, I know I can write an Expect script to work around this, but then I can write a complete cu reimplementation in Expect and I'll probably end up with roughly the same amount of code. Another problem with minicom is that it insists on doing VT100/ANSI emulation and cannot do a straight pass-through connection. As someone else pointed out, cu comes with the uucp package. If you feel like installing (and configuring!) uucp just to get a modem dialer is horrible overkill, you're not alone :-( Another possibility is to get ckermit from the non-free/comm section. Once (or even twice!) in the distant past my irritation over this situation led me to attempt to port BSD tip. Unfortunately, it's about the LEAST portable Unix code I've ever seen. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
