serial util?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:

> fred smith wrote:
> > 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!)
>
> 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.

$ whichcd kermit
You appear to be running Fedora Core 1.
I'll search for rpms for that version.
Searching for kermit...

CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.i386.rpm
SOURCE-CD-3:ckermit-8.0.209-4.src.rpm


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		Matthew Saltzman

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