Serial Console Applications?

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> The  cu  command  is  used  to call up another system and act as a
> dial in terminal.  It can also do simple file transfers with no  
> error checking.
>
> It's command line based. Might be just what you need. The binary on  
> my Debian
> system is 145K, which I'm sure could be reduced.

Sounds good, but I can't find a gentoo package that includes it. I'll  
search around the web for it.

I did find its man page on die.net, and I noticed the BUGS section  
has this to say:

"This program does not work very well"

Hum.