Re: PCOMM for Linux?

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Date: Saturday, October 24, 1992 - 5:55 pm

M. Saggaf (alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: In article <1c9750INNb3f@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
: >I recently obtained the source to pcomm, a Unix telecommunications utility
: >supposedly akin to the DOS Procomm.  I was unable to compile it under Linux
: >(0.97pl2 with GCC 2.2.2d) because, as I far as I could tell, the include file
: >sgtty.h (or was it sggtty.h?) did not define all of the necessary constants.
: >
: >Is there a version of sgtty.h out there that will do the trick?  Better yet,
: >has anyone successfully compiled pcomm for Linux?
: >
: [...]
: 
: Take my advice, forget pcomm. Even when pcomm works, it doesn't work
: properly. Use minicom instead. If you have used any DOS comm package
: at all, you'll feel 'at home' with minicom.
: 
I have minicom on my machine.  I configured it (root: minicom -s), all went 
fine.  However, anytime I try to invoke the program, it gets killed by a 
signal 14 - can't get around tis at all.  I have no idea what to do.  In the 
interim, I am using xcomm.

Gerry Georg
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