On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:42:44PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >it's doable. I never use anything but minicom for a serial console. >you just have to go through the configuration and turn off flow control, >then remove all the init strings that it would otherwise send when >connecting. or put - set line /dev/blah set baud foo set carrier-watch off connect - with the settings you want into a file, and run kermit <file> or make 1 file for anything you want to connect to and alias them all to different things, ie alias ttyS1 = kermit ttys1 where ttys1 is the config using /dev/ttyS1 (umm duh... :-) I've tried to use minicom for many things, and find it's not quite supposed to but can... whereas kermit was designed as a "shell" for serial/network access, which makes it perfect for serial-console stuff and much much more.. (It can be used as a local shell like bash as well.) Thanks, -- Thomas J. Hudak Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. - www.sistina.com Phone: 612.379.3951 Page: 612.318.1967 Fax: 612.379.3952 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010322/719747d9/attachment.pgp