[TUHS] Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

Doug McIntyre merlyn at geeks.org
Tue Dec 13 03:06:46 AEST 2022


On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 06:39:55PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> OK, that is cool, but my question was what problem does it solve that
> we face today?  Other than talking to 30-40 year old hardware.  Why is
> Kermit still a thing?

Up until recent, I used kermit on my mac laptop to talk out multiple serial ports
to control different devices configured over serial quite regularly.
(Now I use the Serial.app)

There were other ways to do it, but kermit was familure, and worked flawlessy.





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