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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: compiling ckermit with cygnus win32 tools
Date: 17 Mar 1998 16:23:04 GMT
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In article <wken01miot.fsf@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>,
Skip Collins <collibf1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
: I have compiled ckermit 6.0.192 using the cygnus b19.1 tools under
: windows 95. As a start I used the linux make and removed the curses
: and tcp stuff. The compilation completed without a hitch. I can run
: the program, but I am having difficulty getting to the serial
: ports. The Cygnus documentation does not really mention serial
: communication. I tried "mount"ing COM1: as /dev/com1. But "set line
: /dev/com1" gives
:
: Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/com1
:
: Does anyone else have experience with ckermit and cygnus?
:
There already is a version of C-Kermit for Windows 95; it's called
Kermit 95:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
You probably didn't realize that it takes several hundred thousand
lines of specialized code and some years of work to do what you are
trying to do. Luckily, we have already done all that so you don't
have to.
- Frank