Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to
> buster is that the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the
> road.
>
> 	I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster
> from installation media and the ckermit package apparently isn't
> part of the distribution any more.
>
> 	There are 2 other buster systems sitting here that still
> have kermit because they got their buster upgrades the nice way
> and didn't commit suicide so if I knew a little more, I could
> obviously  copy the .deb package over to the kermitless system
> and make things right or could I?
>
> 	I am not really interested in the kermit file transfer
> protocol although it is always possible one might need it but the
> kermit VTxx terminal emulator made it easy to talk to and receive
> from a RS-232 port.
>
> 	One thing one could do with ckermit was write rather
> clunky scripts that could mechanize RS-232 communications if you
> needed to do that.
>
> 	Basically, what is the best way in command-line mode to
> deal with serial comm ports these days?
>
> 	Thanks.

  wow, bringing back some memories...  i've just used the stty
command to set the required parameters and then written and 
read from the device directly.

  minicom and cutecom are there, i've not used either of them
in about 10yrs.


  songbird