Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Clint Pachl
Matthew Weigel wrote: Zach Keatts wrote: Fortunately this is a sparc machine, Then everything will work fine. It's specifically i386 that sucks so hard. Hey man, not all i386 "suck so hard." I have some old IBM xSeries servers that don't even have PS/2 or VGA ports. The only wa

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Weigel
Zach Keatts wrote: > Fortunately this is a sparc machine, Then everything will work fine. It's specifically i386 that sucks so hard. -- Matthew Weigel hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Zach Keatts
On 5/11/07, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Makes me think some sort of OS has to be present before using cu. I > have a > > >couple of sparc machines with no monitor/OS that I would love to throw > an > > >OS > > >on.. > > > > > >Zach > > > > sure you can, but the hardware boot ROM has

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Beck
> >Makes me think some sort of OS has to be present before using cu. I have a > >couple of sparc machines with no monitor/OS that I would love to throw an > >OS > >on.. > > > >Zach > > sure you can, but the hardware boot ROM has to support it. I ran most of > my non-intel systems headless for

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Zach Keatts wrote: Can you use cu/tip to start a session with a box with no kernel to start a remote install? The man page says "cu/tip establishes a full-duplex connection to another machine, giving the appearance of being logged in directly on the remote CPU." This part

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/11 08:51, Zach Keatts wrote: > > Can you use cu/tip to start a session with a box with no kernel to start a > remote install? The man page says Depends on the box you're connecting to. > I have a couple of sparc machines with no monitor/OS that I would > love to throw an OS on.. Yo

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-11 Thread Zach Keatts
On 5/10/07, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2007, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > note that cu and tip have separate man pages now. > > jmc > > yeah, I just looked in one of the ssh sessions I had running, it's running > 3.5. > > Can you use cu/tip to start a session with

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Jason McIntyre wrote: note that cu and tip have separate man pages now. jmc yeah, I just looked in one of the ssh sessions I had running, it's running 3.5.

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/10/07, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if there's one thing that really bugs me when I'm working on a Linux system ( yes I do touch them on occasion ) is having to use minicom. Minicom is nice if you want to control logging during your session, and if you're doing something that m

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:31:30PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > I use cu > > man tip(1) > > diana note that cu and tip have separate man pages now. jmc

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Darren Spruell wrote: ... and you can find in ports: Port: minicom-2.00.0p2 Path: comms/minicom Info: MS-DOS Telix-like serial communication program Nooo ;-) if there's one thing that really bugs me when I'm working on a Linux s

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 5/10/07, BradenM - Sonoma Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello; I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a terminal program similar to hyper terminal for windows in structure but not appearance. Someone else already suggested cu/tip which are good. My weapon of choice is mi

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Diana Eichert
I use cu man tip(1) diana

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:29:42PM -0700, BradenM - Sonoma Computer wrote: > Hello; > > I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a terminal program similar > to hyper terminal for windows in structure but not appearance. > cu and tip, both are in base. -- :wq Claudio

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Darren Spruell
On 5/10/07, BradenM - Sonoma Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello; I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a terminal program similar to hyper terminal for windows in structure but not appearance. tip(1) and cu(1) (same binary) are in base and you can find in ports: Port: m

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
BradenM - Sonoma Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a terminal program similar > to hyper terminal for windows in structure but not appearance. Are you looking for (1) a terminal emulator, or (2) a serial communications program? These are tw

OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread BradenM - Sonoma Computer
Hello; I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a terminal program similar to hyper terminal for windows in structure but not appearance.