serial util?

[fred smith]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:51:37AM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >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
> Yes, I know that now (it's even installed), but it wasn't to my 
> knowledge part of RH7 or RH8.  It looks like it got added in RH9, but 
> without some announcement (or carefully reading through the entire 
> package list in my 'copious spare time') it went unnoticed (by me at 
> least) until now.

For a while the kermit project had a restrictive license on the
re-distribution of c-kermit (basically you had to have a license, and
that cost money). During that period, the linux distributors couldn't
distribute it. But it was always available at www.columbia.edu/kermit.
More recently the fine folks at the Kermit project have modified the
license tomake it permissible for free-software distributors to include
it in their packages.

> 
> I wanted to make a point of it because
> 1) I find minicom slightly frustrating to use
> 2) Others may have also not known of it's return

The "return" is only a return to the linux distributions. kermit
actually never went anywhere, has always been available from the
kermit project for anyone who wanted to go get it.


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