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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Terminal Based Comm Pkgs for FreeBSD (minicom, kermit...) Date: 12 Nov 1995 13:38:16 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <484pro$j85@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <309CEE23.167EB0E7@ovid.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Adam Prato <adamp@ovid.com> wrote: >Also, aside from minicom and kermit, are there any other comm programs >(not X like seyon) for freebsd? cu(1) and tip(1). Both are part of the base system. tip(1) uses its own set of configuration files, while cu(1) shares the configuration with the uucp facility, so you need to setup at least /etc/uucp/ports and /etc/uucp/devices in order to use cu. Real Unix Users don't need anything else. :-) Seriously, the Taylor version of cu is usable as a full-featured communications program. The probably most useful extension over the traditional (HDB) cu is the ``~+ cmd'' escape. It connects a local `cmd' (e.g. sz(1) or rz(1)) with both, stdin and stdout redirected to the modem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)