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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Grant Taylor |
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<gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 05/22/2018 02:43 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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>> Have you tried screen? It may have more features than kermit by default, |
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>> but it is intended for speaking with "smart" terminal devices and will do |
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>> lots of input processing. |
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> Are you saying that screen (and possibly tmux, etc.) have the ability to |
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> inject something like history and command line editing? |
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> I thought that they basically kept track of multiple TTYs (PTYs) and did |
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> some intelligent shuffling between them and / or copying & pasting of |
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> content therein. That seems significantly different than introducing |
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> something like readline / rlwrap like functionality. |
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Yes - screen *can* hold everything until you hit enter and allow you |
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to edit the line and do wrapping clientside. Screen also handles |
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control codes properly. |
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I just tried to find the exact settings but drew a blank. It doesn't |
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do local line editing by default. Local editing should be okay with a |
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normal device but it will not work well if your board runs Linux. |
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