alternatives to minicom

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

>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?

Seyon and microcom (http://microcom.port5.com/) are both decent 
replacements for minicom with scripting tools, but from what you describe, 
you're probably better off using diald or chat to do what you've been 
doing.  `chat` just reads a script file which is alternating send/expect 
strings. 

PaulM