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- This is ecu 3.24 modified to work with Linux.
-
- There are several files in this distribution.
- ecu3.24src.tgz - Source of ecu
- ecu3.24bin.tgz - Binaries of ecu compiled using gcc 2.4.3 shared libs 4.4.1
- ecu.patch - patch to original sources to make it work correctly under
- Linux.
-
- Here is an excerpt from the README:
-
- ECU (Extended Call Utility) is a research and engineering
- communications program originally written for users of SCO UNIX
- V.3.2/386 and XENIX V on 80286 and 80386 systems. Support for
- other systems has been added and further porting is possible with
- "minor" effort to other systems based on or similar to UNIX
- System V.
-
- ECU provides the classic terminal communications facility of
- passing keyboard data to a serial line and incoming data to the
- computer video display. In addition, a dialing directory, a
- function key mapping feature, session logging, and other
- basic features are available.
-
- ECU presents to the host a flexible "ANSI" terminal type,
- accepting any valid video control sequences from MS-DOS or SCO
- documentation as of late 1990. It also fares well, though
- imperfectly, with Sun and VT-100 in-band video control sequences.
- Standards are great: everybody should have one, especially if
- they call it "ANSI". For more information, refer to the manual
- section titled "ANSI Filter."
-
- Support for arbitrary video consoles is included. I use ECU
- (almost exclusively now) with an X11R4 xterm. This release has
- been tested extensively with xterms (particularly Metro Link
- X11R5, SCO ODT 2.0 X11R4, SunOS 4.1 MIT standard distribution,
- OpenWindows 2.0, and Roell's X386 1.1b). Your terminal must be
- fairly "smart", with insert/delete-line features,
- erase-to-end-of-line, etc.. See "Supported Terminals" in the
- manual. Also check the note below named "KBDTEST3".
-
- ECU supports numerous file transfer protocols: as of this
- writing, XMODEM, XMODEM/CRC, XMODEM-1K, YMODEM/CRC Batch,
- ZMODEM/CRC-16, ZMODEM/CRC-32, C-Kermit 5 and SEAlink are
- supported. For more information, refer to the manual sections
- describing the individual interactive and procedure file transfer
- commands.
-
- A very flexible procedure (script) language is also incorporated
- to automate many communications tasks. In addition to augmenting
- interactive tasks, by using shell scripts and ECU procedures, ECU
- can perform batch-style communications sessions in an entirely
- "unattended" fashion.
-
- For applications too unwieldy for the procedure language,
- "ecufriend" programs are supported. Friends are spawned by ECU
- having access to the shared memory segment containing an
- ECU-managed "screen image" and other data and having use of the
- attached communications line.
-
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- The Linux port of ECU 3.24 was done by Jeremy Bettis
- Contact ME for Linux specific problems, not the author. Contact the author
- for general ECU problems, not me.
-
- I can be emailed at: jbettis@cse.unl.edu - or - jerbo@tddi.UUCP
-