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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I am able to use Kermit with ramdisk BL2 and I am dialed into my bbs with 
it right now (and telnetted to another computer from there since I cannot 
get the mail list mail at my usual bbs email address due to timeouts).

I copied kermit to /tmp after loading bl2.  If your computer has at least 
8M RAM there is an additional 4M of ramdisk created and kermit is only 2M 
so it fit easily.  If you have only 4M RAM you are out of luck but minicom 
is about 250K .tgz and you might be able to copy just the binary.

Kermit also telnets and ftps and does file transfers and fetches files 
from the web and maybe other tricks as well. I use it to read Russian 
online after loading a VGA screen font.  Type 'reset' after exiting kermit 
or less won't display anything at all. 

kermit (you get a prompt)
then, to dial:
set line /dev/ttyS1             for com2
set speed 115200                for a modem at least 28K
dial 2345678                    the phone number

C to connect; Ctl-\, C to get back to kermit.

Or instead of dialing, type ftp or telnet and the URL to go to.


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:53:11 -0500 (EST), Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > Why do you want to use the ppp-setup instead of a dialing program such as
> > miniterm or kermit?  I don't recommend miniterm, it does not do very well
> > at my bbs, but kermit works great and someone at kermit specially compiled
> > it to work with our old library.  Download the 2M file and chmod +x and
> > put it somewhere on the path named kermit.  There is a link at James'
> > download site. It may be too large for the RAMdisk version of BL2.
> 
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 sheywood AT shentel.net wrote:
> 
> >> Is there a way to configure the ppp-setup program that comes with
> >> BasicLinux 2.1 to use it for a direct dialup connection, as for
> >> connecting with a BBS?  If so, please tell me how.
> 
> >> TIA,
> 
> >> Sam Heywood
> >> -- Message handled by BasicLinux, v. 2.1
> >> -- See "http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/";
> 
> 
> Hello Sindi:
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> The reason why I would much rather prefer ro use a program that comes 
> with BasicLinux is stated in the last sentence of your reply.
> 
> Sam Heywood
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