Subject: Re: com problems with -current of October 4
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Alistair Crooks <azcb0@amdahl.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/29/1997 03:32:21
> >>>>> "Curt" == Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:
> 
>     Curt> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Michael C. Richardson wrote:
> 
>     >> I have an AST 4 port card with 16550s in a P133 (istari). Each
>     >> of the ports connects to the serial console of a different
>     >> machine.  ...  When it crashes, and winds up in ddb, *and*
>     >> istari has not got a kermit open on that port....
> 
>     Curt> Give up on kermit and run rtty. You can get it from
>     Curt> ftp://ftp.cynic.net/pub/unix/source/rtty-3.2.tar.gz.
> 
>   A good idea... it was even on my todo list :-)
>   I got screen from pkgsrc (cool, it even installed texinfo for me...)
> and that does the trick for now... 

As of the next SUP scan, you'll be able to get rtty from pkgsrc as well.

Take care,
Alistair