From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) Subject: Re: term? Date: 28 Sep 1993 14:35:04 GMT
Timothy Mark Lawless (tlawless@whale.st.usm.edu) wrote:
: I am real new to linux.. Can anyone tell me what i would use term for?
: and how to use it.. If all this is in a faq i would be happy to look
: it up if i knew where it was and what it was..
: Thanx.
: Tim.
The major sites for "life, the universe, and Linux" are:
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux
nic.funet.fi /pub/OS/Linux
I recommend getting *any* .FAQ file you find about Linux.
They have all been extremely helpful to me. Also, I most
heartily recommend the following documents from the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP) :
Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh
The Linux Network Administrators' Guide by Olaf Kirch
Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide by Michael K. Johnson
Linux System Administrator's Guide by Lars Wirzenius
These are truly wonderful documents. IMHO far better than
most of the documentation available with the commercially
available ($$$$ or &&&&) *nixen. I threw away my AT&T SVR4
($$$$) system and haven't looked back! (Actually, I would
have to be dragged back kicking and screaming!)
You can find these documents in :
pub/linux/ALPHA/LDP on tsx-11.mit.edu
A rule of thumb that I use is this:
If it's in any directory related to Linux documentation,
GRAB it! A great many people have spent a lot of their
own valuable (unreimbursed) time and effort in developing
and documenting this wonderful new OS and deserve a
great deal of appreciation for their efforts!
In answer to your specific question, term is a terminal
communications program that is very robust. For more
standard terminal emulation I enjoy using minicom (currently
version 1.4g) It is very complete, compiled clean first shot,
installed like a breeze, and is very well documented.
-- Mark