lrzsz and minicom may be a bit better. It's certainly freer... On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Chris Gray wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, David Z. Maze wrote: >> Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> GB> I just got an HP49G calculator ... purchased the "PC >> GB> Connectivity Kit" in a fairly clueless moment (clueless = not >> GB> thinking that the included software might be Windoze-only). >> GB> >> GB> Have found *some* Linux - HP calc connection stuff on >> GB> SourceForge, but was wondering if any Debian-ers are >> GB> successfully shunting stuff back and forth from Debian to an >> GB> HP48 or 49. Would be interested in ... how ... :-) >> >> Gosh...I haven't done this in years. The one thing you do need from >> the HP kit is the strange serial cable that plugs into the >> calculator. The HP48, at least, supported both xmodem and Kermit >> transfers, so I'd try installing the (non-free) ckermit package and >> trying to use that to move files around. The last time I tried it >> was many years ago on a Slackware machine on the other side of the >> country, so... :-) > >I've been doing this fairly recently (I have some boring classes where >games come in handy :) ). Here is my ~/.kermrc (you have to be in >the group dialout to open /dev/ttyS1) > >set port /dev/ttyS1 >set speed 9600 >set parity none >set file type binary >set carrier-watch off >robust > >kermit can be a fairly annoying thing to use, so good luck. > >Cheers, >Chris > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!