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Hi, |
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 |
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Daniel D Jones <ddjones@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in the |
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> '90s like minicom or programs that have limited capabilities. |
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> ... |
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> I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, |
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> multi protocol support (ssh in all its various |
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> flavors, serial port, telnet, rlogin), session logging, etc. |
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> ... |
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> This is the kind of technical itch that I would think lots of |
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> programmers would scratch, but I haven't been able to find |
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> anything close. |
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Because this isn't the Unix way of doing things. (I think you're a Cisco |
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tech?!?) |
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Instead, the approach would be to |
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- use a console for X11 gui (xterm, rxvt, whatever), |
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- use a terminal emulator for for terminal emulation (usually included |
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in the console applications, but I'm more thinking of "screen" here |
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because you mentioned scollback buffer and stuff), |
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- use a serial line comm prog for the serial communication (what's |
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wrong with minicom?) |
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- use a SSH shell for SSH connections, Telnet for telnet, etc. pp. |
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- use a program for skripting ttys for the macros - "expect" and "talk" |
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come to my mind. |
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Instead of having a huge, hard-to-maintain one-does-it-all-package, |
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this seems a lot more flexible to me. If you want to save keystrokes - |
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well, write some scripts and aliases. |
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-hwh |
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