16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
4:30 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:51:17AM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- On Mon, 4/11/11, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Amen to that. I started with using minicom, then discovered kermit (or
ckermit as this particular package was called) and never looked back.
Talk to the LOM of my Sun V100, talk to the serial (and only) console
of my PCEngines Alix boards ... it is simple and It Just Works (TM) ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
If you're talking about xmodem/ymodem,
you're likely
talking about installing firmware. I'm talking about
using kermit (the program, not the file transfer protocol)
to interact with embedded machines for interactive
configuration and/or debugging. This is extremely
common.
Yes - using kermit as a terminal emulator is very common. It can be
less of a pain to work with than minicom.