Sounds like you want Kermit. It's basically a modem program, with a dialing
directory and stuff. You can set it for crtscts, and it works. The Kermit
homepage is http://www.columbia.edu/kermit. I downloaded the source from
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/cku192src.tar.gz, and got it to
build under 1.3_Alpha.

Kermit is an interesting program. It can also telnet (>set line ppp0,
instead of >set line tty00). You can then chain telnet, Kermit, & vax "set
host" through several machines, and when you see the file you want, start
Kermit on the remote host, and it will tunnel back to you. I do that at
work all the time.


>At 12:25 PM 11/24/97 -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>Unfortunatly opur cu is a bit of an orphan at the moment. tip
>>works better, but only marginally.
>>
>>What are you trying to do with the port?
>
>Simply use it as an outgoing modem... same as if
>I connected a terminal directly to it, to control
>it through commands entered on the keyboard.
>Just running 'cu -s 19200 -l /dev/tty00' (tty01 is my
>console port) has the effect I mentioned, simply hanging.
>
>>The only non-standard serial port mode is cdtrcts, which is a hardware flow
>>control mode. It sounds like you're doing stuff which wouldn't need it.
>
>I thouht there was another, similar-sounding mode, crtscts, or
>something similar.  Are these all accessible via the 'stty'
>command? Or do I have to write a program to do the ioctl()?