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 Message 522 
 Tony Langdon to Simon Geddes 
 Re: Linux dial-up terminal software 
 05 Aug 19 09:58:00 
 
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-=> On 08-04-19 13:30, Simon Geddes wrote to All <=-

 SG> Hi all,

 SG> I recently acquired a nice little USB serial modem, which  I would like
 SG> to use to call some dial-up BBSes (all two of them). Do you know the
 SG> names of any Linux terminal software for this? Ideally, it would
 SG> support the usual BBS terminal software stuff - ANSI, zmodem.

Minicom is widely available.  Should be able to install it using your
distribution's normal tools (yum, apt, etc).  And SyncTerm also supports
dialup, as well as telnet/SSH/rlogin.  SyncTerm needs to be compiled from
source, so it's a bit more work to get it running.


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