serial util?

[fred smith]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:58:36AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:41, Colin Burgess wrote:
> >
> >>What are people using to access a serial port?
> >
> >
> >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).  
> 
> They have kermit again?! Yay! I thought I was stuck with minicom...
> Sweet familiar kermit... the serial port's long lost friend.

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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