Once you get everything working, you may want to check out these more advanced programs, all are available on the usual FTP sites, if they didn't come with your distribution.
ecu - a communications programminicom - telix-like comm program procomm - procommish comm program with zmodemseyon - X based comm programxc - xcomm communications packageThese programs offer more features than just kermit alone,
including telephone directories, auto-dialing and so on.
term. term multiplexes many
connections over one serial line. It is somewhat similar to SLIP,
and offers some SLIP functionality. These include rlogin,
telnet, ftp, finger, rdate,
xmosaic and tredir. tredir is a special program
which lets you redirect remote TCP/IP ports to your local machine.
This allows for remote NNTP, and SMTP access. The good thing about
term is that is runs entirely in user space, meaning it requires
no kernel support, or sysadmin support (like SLIP does).
screen is another multi-session program. This one behaves
like the virtual consoles.
callback is a program that will have your modem call you back
immediately from where you just called.
mgetty+fax handles FAX stuff, and provides an alternate
getty
ZyXEL is a control program for ZyXEL U-1496 modems. It
handles dialin, dialout, dial back security, FAXing, and voice
mailbox functions.
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Serial and sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/comm or one of the many
mirrors. These are the directories where all the serial type things
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