On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Instead, the approach would be to > - use a console for X11 gui (xterm, rxvt, whatever), > - use a terminal emulator for for terminal emulation (usually included > in the console applications, but I'm more thinking of "screen" here > because you mentioned scollback buffer and stuff), > - use a serial line comm prog for the serial communication (what's > wrong with minicom?) > - use a SSH shell for SSH connections, Telnet for telnet, etc. pp. > - use a program for skripting ttys for the macros - "expect" and "talk" > come to my mind.
And if you want scrollback buffers then try running your telnet/ssh/minicomm program under screen. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list