[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
> On 05/22/2018 12:45 PM, David M. Fellows wrote:
>> Since you want to blast to the past... kermit may do what you
>> need. Back in the day it connected everything to everything.
>> See http://www.kermitproject.org/ emerge ckermit.
>
> Are you advocating kermit as a protocol or as a terminal (emulator) client?

Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator.  It's a serial
comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty
you used to run the ckermit command.  It's also a file transfer
protocol, but that's pretty much irrelevant for this thread.

I use ckermit every day, but have never tried to wrap it with either
of the aforementioned readline utilities (the things I connect to have
their own command line history/editing facilities).

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