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