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- From: gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason)
- Subject: Re: Working term program for Linux?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:48:29 GMT
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- I also struggled endlessly with minicom, until I just got fed up. It was
- a nice idea, but too much of an attempt to be user friendly... but at the
- same time, too buggy for me to cope with. Not to upset whoever developed
- it... it was just not right for me.
-
- The best success I have had with modem communications is with the Kermit
- package. It has an easy to use script language that allows me to auto-
- login to my favorite sites with no intervention, and even receive `fake'
- news in the middle of the night. It also does not mess with terminal
- emulation at all... which means that everything is passed to the Linux
- virtual terminals (which emulate vt-100 perfectly.. at least for me).
-
- Of course, it doesn't have a nice windowsey interface, so some may not
- like it one bit. But it gets the job done without whistles and bells.
-
- If you want the whistles and bells, though, I hear that Seyon is an
- excellent term package... but you've got to be running X, which is an
- evil in itself unless you're fortunate enough to have something a little
- nicer than a 386sx-16 6MB 256K vga system.
-
- Kris
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