Minicom in a black box?

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Mon Mar 07, 2005 at 15:35:54 +0000, Oisin Curtin wrote:
> I need to do a transfer across dialup lines when no one is at either 
> end.  The process must run from cron.
> 
> I hope to use minicom at the source end since it does everything I need, 
> except run without a screen.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to make minicom comfortable as a background 
> program?

minicom uses external programs for xmodem etc, so you could just take
those directly for transmitting your data?! (e.g. from the lrzsz package).




Adam
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