From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Subject: Re: term? Date: 29 Sep 1993 01:39:01 GMT
mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) writes:
>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
[delete lots]
> In answer to your specific question, term is a terminal
> communications program that is very robust. For more
This is like saying a Ferrari is a wagon (they both have wheels and someone
can ride in both). Term allows you to set up a socket over a modem
connection that looks like the sockets that allow all sorts of network stuff
to take place such as telnet, nntp,ftp, irc, and even X (tcp services but
not udp services, so no NFS or talk).
Also like a Ferrari, it is very powerful but occasionally kinda cranky. I
would not characterize it as robust. I use it several hours a day. I now
have 4 xterms on my home machine (a SPARC) displaying stuff running on the
Sun server at school.
> 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
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