Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

["Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>]

	I installed microcom and like it as it is very similar to
the functionality I had with ckermit.

	I briefly thought of compiling from source but laziness
got the better of me and I am happy with microcom.

	Expect is what I am using for scripting so I just took my
kermit scripts and saved the important strings and put those in
to an expect script.

	This is what I love about unix.
	I have had a little trouble getting the expect scripts to
be happy with the output from microcom but when you can exactly
define what should be there either literally or via a RE, it
works beautifully.

	For some reason, "\r" and "\n" seem to never match and I
even tried "\r\n" and it just times out so the project I was
working with is accomplished by setting timeout in expect to 1
second but hopefully I can figure out what is wrong and make it
run at it's maximum speed.

Martin

The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
> On 2020-04-03 at 17:40, elvis wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918061 and
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921098 are the best
> I've found on it.
> 
> Basically, no maintainer activity in years, and multiple RC bugs.
> 
> If there's an upstream active enough that any upstream aspects of the RC
> bugs can be addressed, and if someone were to volunteer to maintain it
> and fix any packaging-related aspects of the RC bugs, there's probably
> no reason this couldn't be reintroduced. Depending on what those bugs
> were (I haven't bothered digging for that info), that might be a tall
> order, or it might be trivial.
> 
> --
>    The Wanderer
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
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