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From: obrien@nob.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem program for FreeBSD needed
Date: 5 Feb 1996 08:33:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Andrew Ghali (andrewg@netcom.com) wrote:
: obrien@nob.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) writes:
: >
: >There is a port of the latest Minicom (version 1.74) as
: >ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/minicom*1.74*
: >
: >-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
:
: I am using it right now. But it depends on having both rzsz and kermit
: already installed (rzsz yes, kermit huh?) Works like a champ, except
You need kermit incase you want to do kermit file transfers. You can
``pkg_add -f'' to get it to install with out having kermit.
: I am running a kernel with pcvt and the little boxes around the popup
: windows appear to be hard coded for another console driver ('q' and 'x'
: characters outline the windows instead).
Good to know the problem. I've tested it under the default SCO-like
consol, xterm, and rxvt. I'm about to switch my other box to pcvt, so I
will test it after that.
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)