On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:18:49PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
| Is there a serial terminal program for Debian? One that will talk out an
| RS-232 port? I couldn't seem to find one searching in dselect or
| debian.org's
| online package search.
minicom
kermit
I'm sure there are others too.
| I don't think gnome-terminal or the like can talk to a serial port.
Nope, they're X clients that act like a physical terminal (eg vt102 or
xterm)
| Telnet talks to the network.
Correct.
| I used to use tip on the old SunOS. On Windows I use Hyperterminal.
|
| I'll need it for powerpc, but if one is available for x86 there is likely
| to be one for powerpc too.
That's one of the benefits to running debian on both machines :-).
You'll likely find the same packages on each one.
-D
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