On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 19:09 +0000, David Gerard wrote: > 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. > I thought it was too, but it doesn't seem to be there for F10. The copy I'm using was compiled and installed in /usr/local/bin by me back in April 2007, so it can't have been part of the distro since F8 or thereabouts. Martin