Console Client? Putty's not up to scratch..

[Erik Christiansen]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:41:49PM +0200, Christopher J Combrink wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I have heard great things about Minicom. But I
> couldn't get it to work with my little Mecer USB to RS-232. 

There are others who don't like it for file transfer, at least:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2003-March/000810.html


> Tell me more about this ckermit.

The useful stuff is:

CKERMIT:
--------
Source:   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html#source

To Build: $ make linux
          # mv wermit /usr/local/bin/kermit
          # chmod ugo +x !$
          (No, "wermit" is not a typo.)

Doco:     view ckermit/ckututor.txt
          (Line 318 is where the COMMAND LANGUAGE starts)

It worked well for me, talking to a BDI2000, when porting U-Boot
and the linux kernel to an embedded target. Apart from that, I don't
have much experience with it.

Erik

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