Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

[elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com>]

On 3/4/20 11:04 pm, 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.
>   

Have you tried compiling from source? Just because it wasn't packaged, 
doesn't mean that you can't try installing it yourself...  does it say 
why it was dropped anywhere?



> 	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.
>
> 	Martin McCormick
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