alternatives to minicom

[Adam Robert Pitcher]

A search on http://groups.google.com for "minicom cron" shows various 
fixes.  A few people suggest using C-Kermit instead because is can be 
ran scripted and unattended.
Maybe this will help

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html


Adam

Mark Szidik wrote:

>Anybody able to recommend alternatives to Minicom?  I cant seem
>to get it to work in a cron job.
>
>I have an expect script to dial out and do a bunch of stuff on
>another system.  It works fine when I run the script from the
>command line, but I get an error when it runs under cron:
>
>spawn minicom
>No cursor motion capability (cm)
>
>Can minicom be run via cron?  If not, what other dialer programs
>for Linux can I use?
>
>
>Thanks,
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