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On 05/22/2018 02:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator. It's a serial |
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> comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty |
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> you used to run the ckermit command. It's also a file transfer protocol, |
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> but that's pretty much irrelevant for this thread. |
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Duly noted. I suspect that minicom, cu, and putty-link (?) also qualify |
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the same way. |
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Conversely, XTerm, Gnome-Term, PuTTY, Datastorm ProComm, Vandyke |
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(Secure)CRT, and Hummingbird Host Explorer are all true terminal |
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emulators as they are GUI applications that display text. |
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> I use ckermit every day, but have never tried to wrap it with either |
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> of the aforementioned readline utilities (the things I connect to have |
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> their own command line history/editing facilities). |
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Interesting. Can I ask more about what your use case is? |
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Grant. . . . |
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unix || die |
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