fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
This question is directed more at Mr. Da Cruz. Does kermit support Data General CEO - Dasher 200 - Linux console setups? I have been unable to configure kermit to make a sensible connection between my linux box and the DG system. Any info would be greatly apprectiated.
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>Mike.Warby@brunel.ac.uk wrote:
>> I have obtained the versions 5 and 6 of kermit for running on my Pentium PC
>> under slackware Linux. Version 5 seems to work okay but version 6 needs to
>> the library
>>
>> libncurses.so.3.0
>>
>> which I do not have and which I cannot find using the program archie. (Older
>> version seem to be available but not 3.0). I cannot tell if kermit needs
>> other libraries as well which I may or may not have.
>>
>All you need is a curses library -- any curses library. Unfortunately, this
>proves to be not quite so simple in Linux. Kermit itself could not care less
>which curses library (curses or ncurses) or version of it you have.
>>From the ckuker.bwr file:
>(3.3) C-KERMIT AND LINUX
>Be sure to read the comments in the "linux:" makefile entry. There are all
>sorts of confusing issues caused by the many and varied Linux distributions.
>Some of the worst involve the curses library and header files: where are they,
>what are they called, which ones are they really? Ditto for UUCP lock files.
>To add to the confusion, the curses library (now, as of C-Kermit 6.0.193, by
>popular demand, ncurses rather than curses) is dynamically linked, rather than
>linked into the executable. This means a certain relationship must obtain
>between the version number referenced in the executable and the version number
>of the library. But there are evidently several different numbering systems
>for libncurses.so -- e.g. 1.9.9e is another "name" for 3.0 -- but the program
>loader doesn't know that and so won't run the program. Solution: rebuild it
>yourself from source code, and if you have additional trouble, come back and
>read this section (but you can skip this paragraph on future readings).
>(etc etc)...
>> Can you give me advice as to what to do. I have ordered the book "Using
>> C-Kermit" from our University bookshop and I would if possible like to use
>> version 6 instead of version 5. I am not sure whether this is relevant, but
>> I obtained my slackware linux in 1996 and have since upgraded my kernel to
>> version 2.0.29.
>>
>We also have a C-Kermit 6.0.192 Slackware install package. In case that is
>not what you are working from, you might want to try it:
