Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-11 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:20:24PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 08/10/2005 06:32:56 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > ... > > If the info is pasted in too fast, the router or switch will drop > > characters, so I need something with a configurable delay after > > pasting characters or lines from

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > That's the cliche of how Linux people treat questions, right there. "If you > want a program like that, just write one yourself." That wasn't the answer given. He rightfully pointed out that one has all the tools right now to do what he wants; they're split apart which is

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 16:31, Carl Fink wrote: >On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:16:53PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> Well, you did ask _why_ no such program was about. I'm thinking >> the answer is that people who want something like this >> have wacked up something customized to their specific n

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:16:53PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Well, you did ask _why_ no such program was about. I'm thinking > the answer is that people who want something like this > have wacked up something customized to their specific need. No, that was Daniel Jones. I was just astonishe

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Ron Peterson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:50:55AM -0400, rpeterso wrote: > Are you familiar with 'screen'? BTW, you can do serial stuff w/ screen directly, if you like. E.g.: 1017# cat /local/etc/screenrc.serial # This assumes that serialuser has proper # permissions to access the serial ports and to # write

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Ron Peterson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:32:56AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:13 am, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: > ... I SSH into that server, then telnet into the device. When > I'm working on a device, being able to scroll back to

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Marty
Daniel D Jones wrote: Right now, I'm using SecureCRT on a company supplied Windows laptop. I'd prefer to use my own, Linux laptop. SecureCRT handles everything I've talked about easily. I was looking for something which could do the same thing in Linux. Evidently, it doesn't exist. Yes, i

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 06:32:56 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: Sorry, don't mean to be all elite about modularization. This is what I'd do, and do do in similar circumstances. YMMV I'm a Cisco tech for a very large organization. Half the time, I'm connected to a router console via a serial port. The othe

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 04:34:38 AM, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:13:45AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Wow. That's the cliche of how Linux people treat questions, right there. "If you want a program like that, just write one yourself." Well, you did ask _why_ no such program was about.

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:27, Chris Palmer wrote: >Gregory Seidman writes: >> Actually, I'm pretty happy with minicom. Are you unhappy merely >> because it was written in the 90s? Or because it is text-based (as >> is its purpose, after all)? > >As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't affor

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:13 am, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: > > As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about > > what decade our software was designed and implemented in. :) > > > > Like Gregory, I find minicom entirely suffici

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:13:45AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > As for the rest of it, why have everything in one big wad? > If you want a window with scrollback use an xterm. > If you want ssh/scp/sftp/telnet/rsh then use that > program. If you want session logging use script. > If you want ker

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 12:13:45 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: If you can't recall the commands and _must_ have them in a menu then wack something out with tcl/tk or make a special menu bar/drawer/applets with gnome or whatever. I suspect the right way to do this is to use XUL, javascript, and mozilla. Wi

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about what decade our software was designed and implemented in. :) Like Gregory, I find minicom entirely sufficient. In fact I very nearly like it. As for the rest of it, why have e

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Chris Palmer
Gregory Seidman writes: > Actually, I'm pretty happy with minicom. Are you unhappy merely > because it was written in the 90s? Or because it is text-based (as is > its purpose, after all)? As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about what decade our software was designed

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
pen Source.) I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was } written in the '90s like minicom or programs that have limited } capabilities. For example, Komport (KDE's serial comm program) is limited } to a 25 x 80 screen, despite the fact that it's a GUI program. I'm

Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel D Jones
was written in the '90s like minicom  or programs that have limited capabilities.  For example, Komport (KDE's serial comm program) is limited to a 25 x 80 screen, despite the fact that it's a GUI program.  I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, mul