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?
expect might also be twisted to do what you need. It is also in portage.
~shudder~ -- Grant. . . . unix || die
