Sync serial bridging over Ethernet, was Re: [HECnet] Multi-floor household (DECnet) routing help needed

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-21 21:09, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/21/2013 03:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
  You have a working binary for PuTTY on OS X?   I'm forced to use
Windows for work and I use PuTTY every day there. I'd love to have a
copy for my home Macs.   Where is it available?

  I heard recently that PuTTY had been ported to OS X.   There seems to
be no point at all to this.

  Open a Terminal, type "ssh <hostname>"...what's so tough about that?
It works fine.

Terminal.app doesn't provide a shiny GUI to connect to physical serial ports. ;)

    Well I guess if people "need" that sort of thing...but then, I
respectfully submit that those are the types of people who aren't afraid
of the keyboard.

Just as you use ssh (or telnet) to connect to other systems, I respectfully point out that something like kermit is what you want if you want to connect to a serial port.

(yes, I know GNU screen can do it too.   I agree it seems fairly pointless.)

    Yes.   And if memory serves, screen ships with OS X by default.

screen is (sometimes) useful, but for a totally different reason.

	Johnny

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