Serial Console Applications?

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:23 AM, gboyce wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
>
>>
>> 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"
>
> It is sometimes bundled with the UUCP package.

Yup, I found it in taylor-uucp on Gentoo.

cu is 95k on my Gentoo-embedded install, which isn't too bad, and it  
doesn't have any dependancies.

Thanks for all the help, it seems to be working great now.