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- From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Seyon 0.0 (X11 Communications Package)
- Message-ID: <ALSAGGAF.92Nov8182511@alfredo.mit.edu>
- Summary: communication program for X11
- Keywords: Seyon terminal communication modem X X11
- Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: alfredo.mit.edu
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:25:17 GMT
- Lines: 53
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-
- I've uploaded it to sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/X11/Incoming. I'm
- looking for a 'home' for Seyon, where I can put updates regularly for
- beta testers without going through the 'incoming directory' cycle. If
- you can provide a site, please drop me a line. Here is the README file,
- which should give you an idea about Seyon:
-
- Introduction:
- =============
-
- This is Seyon, an X-based communication package that has its roots in
- xcomm 2.2. Seyon is still in alpha, but is quite usable. It has a
- descent dialing directory where hosts can be chosen by clicking at
- them. Seyon has the same script language as xcomm 2.2, which is quite
- good. Seyon avoids the problematic terminal emulation of minicom and
- other communication programs by using xterm as its terminal emulator.
- Hence, Seyon can emulate vt100 and color ANSI (the latter only if
- color xterm is used). Some non-essential features are still not
- implemented but will be in the near future. If you use Seyon and like
- it, please let me know by email. This will give me the incentive to
- continue maintaining it.
-
- Installation:
- =============
-
- To install Seyon, edit the top of make file then invoke make by 'make
- install' (or 'make' then 'make install').
-
- IMPORTANT:
- The application defaults file must installed or the program will not
- function properly.
-
- Use:
- ====
-
- IMPORTANT:
- Make sure the environment variable MODEM is defined to be your modem
- port (e.g. /dev/ttys0) or the program will not work.
-
- The name of the startup file is '.seyon'. That of the dialing directory
- is '.phonelist'. Both has to be in the current or home directoy. Two
- examples (dot_seyon and dot_phonelist) are included. They have to be
- renamed.
-
- To use Seyon, just invoke from anywhere by 'seyon &'. That's about it.
- Make sure before you do this that 'seyon' , 'seyon-cmd' and 'xterm'
- are in your search path.
-
- --
- /M. Saggaf
- alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu
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