On 18 February 2010 19:00, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:01 -0600, anr78 wrote: >> I installed TeraTerm today to use it with a Prolific USB to Serial >> Adapter. I created a symlink in dosdevices (ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 com1) > There are perfectly good native equivalents: try minicom or kermit. > Kermit is considerably more powerful and can be scripted. It can deal > with serial ports both interactively and for file transfers and is also > a telnet and ftp client. It must be obtained from > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html It's in the Ubuntu repos: sudo apt-get install ckermit It is or was in the repos for Fedora as well. - d.
