[ale] GUI Telecomm program

[Christopher Bergeron]

Chris, I believe that I just saw it on either Redhat 8.0 or Slackware
8.1.  I've installed both this week, and I know I saw it in one of
them.  I don't recall which it was (I think it was Slackware), I have
seen it recently.

-CB


Thursday, October 3, 2002, 11:00:25 AM, you wrote:

CR> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:07 pm, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> > Hi all, quick question.  Do you know of any program that runs in X
>> > that has the functionality of Hyperterminal in windows?  Minicom is
>> > OK, but I would like something gui based. Can't believe I just said
>> > that!) I haven't been able to find anything yet. Anyways thanks for
>> > the info/help.
>> 
>> There used to be a standard program named seyon that did this.  It has 
>> not shipped on a recent distribution I know of in quite a while.  As I 
>> recall, it had a kinda funky license which may have something to do 
>> with getting dropped.  It wouldn't surprise me if you could still find 
>> it on ibiblio.org, though, and it will probably still work.

CR> Its security issues also contributed to it being dropped....  AFAIK, 
CR> they've never been fixed.

CR> later,
CR> chris


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