Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 05:24:21 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: rsnow@txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Cc: d_burr@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good text-based telcom program? Working MINICOM? Message-ID: <199512130424.FAA10859@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212203149.501B-100000@oasis.txdirect.net> from "Rob Snow" at Dec 12, 95 08:38:20 pm
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> > On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote: [...] > > So I'm finding myself in the need of a good text-based comm program. > > more "zip" to it (and ease of use, maybe). > > > [...] > I've had the same results with my machine (205 & 210). Looks REALLY > nice (I'm an old Telix user). But 'it dont work'. In my weak > attempt to hack MiniCom I had less luck than you... :-( > > I think it'd make a great addition to the ports tree. Unfortunately, > I believe that my cross-eyed attempt told me that I might not be > the person to do it. I would, however, try and take another look > if you'll send me your patches. > > __________________________________________________________________ > Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD > rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org > > In the same vein I digged out a tiny comm porgram (which I had working in ol' SCO days), named xcomm. I hacked it to work under FreeBSD (termios ioctls). It's not as fancy (menues) as minicomm but at least it can dial and does XMODEM downloads in conjunction with sz/sx. If someone wants to continue hacking on it I can make it available. It's tiny, so when I'm in the office later today I can uuappend it to a mail reply. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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