Lots of folks seem to be recommending tip or cu.  My personal preference
is Kermit (available in the packages system).  

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:13:42 +0100 
>  Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> 
>  > I need to setup a host (sun3 or i386) to act as a serial console for another
>  > one (alpha or hp700). What kind of tools do you use on the host ?
>  > If someone could also provide me a config file for this tool it would be
>  > cool.
> 
> tip(1)!!  :-)
> 
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