Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I installed microcom and like it as it is very similar to the functionality I had with ckermit. I briefly thought of compiling from source but laziness got the better of me and I am happy with microcom. Expect is what I am using for scripting so I just took my kermit scrip

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-04-03 at 17:40, elvis wrote: > On 3/4/20 11:04 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > >> The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to buster is that >> the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the road. >> >> I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster from >> installat

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread elvis
On 3/4/20 11:04 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to buster is that the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the road. I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster from installation media and the ckermit package appa

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > look at screen. Martin McCormick wrote: > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports. Read the man page section titled WINDOW TYPES. -- John Hasler jh

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 03, 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > John Hasler writes: > > look at screen. > > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports. Maybe something like Minicom t

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread songbird
Martin McCormick wrote: > The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to > buster is that the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the > road. > > I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster > from installation media and the ckermit package apparently isn't > p

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] > I appreciate the responses. It looks like gkermit is > just the file transfer which is good that it still exists but I > want the stuff that is gone such as scripting and the ability to > type things that go out over

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 apr 20, 08:52:33, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports. See section WINDOW TYPES in the manpage. Seems like it also sup

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > John Hasler writes: > > look at screen. > > I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing > something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each > window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:14:12AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Look at gkermit. It's evidently a GPL rewrite of ckermit. Also take a > > look at screen. > > Yeah, I did an "apt-cache search ckermit" too. > > The package description for gkermit says, > > The non-fre

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:14:12AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Look at gkermit. It's evidently a GPL rewrite of ckermit. Also take a > look at screen. Yeah, I did an "apt-cache search ckermit" too. The package description for gkermit says, The non-free package ckermit adds connection estab

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Look at gkermit. It's evidently a GPL rewrite of ckermit. Also take a look at screen. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

I Miss ckermit in Buster.

2020-04-03 Thread Martin McCormick
The only thing that I truly miss after upgrading to buster is that the package known as ckermit has fallen beside the road. I had a hard-drive fail on one system so installed buster from installation media and the ckermit package apparently isn't part of the distribution any more.