On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor <gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 05/22/2018 12:45 PM, David M. Fellows wrote: >> Since you want to blast to the past... kermit may do what you >> need. Back in the day it connected everything to everything. >> See http://www.kermitproject.org/ emerge ckermit. > > Are you advocating kermit as a protocol or as a terminal (emulator) client?
Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator. It's a serial comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty you used to run the ckermit command. It's also a file transfer protocol, but that's pretty much irrelevant for this thread. I use ckermit every day, but have never tried to wrap it with either of the aforementioned readline utilities (the things I connect to have their own command line history/editing facilities). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want a WESSON OIL at lease!! gmail.com