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Little_Goomba

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« on: June 06, 2005, 02:25:20 pm »
Well, it looks like the link for Zaurus Minicom is gone.  Does anybody have a minicom.ipk they can send me?
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« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2005, 04:31:34 am »
Forum guidelines -> MAKE A SIGNATURE, please. ;-)

You need to specify what OS you are running and what version... If it's the sharp rom then I suggest killefiz...
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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2005, 08:08:59 am »
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Well, it looks like the link for Zaurus Minicom is gone.  Does anybody have a minicom.ipk they can send me?
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I can give you the binary for the sharp rom/cacko. I don't have the IPK, sorry.
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2005, 12:00:50 pm »
Sorry about that.  I usually look over the forum rules before posting.  Even after your suggestion, I couldn't find the note regarding sig lines.

Anyhow, I found a minicom executable, and a libncurses file.  Now I'm running Libncurses.so.4 and require .5 for minicom.  If this were the other way around, I would ln and be done with it.  Sigh.
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2005, 06:14:45 pm »
Consider kermit, I prefer it over minicom.

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2005, 03:40:07 am »
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Consider kermit, I prefer it over minicom.
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here's my libncurses stuff from /usr/lib tar'd up

HTH
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2005, 04:45:09 am »
Oops - I apologise, it may not be listed as a forum rule... but it does help people understand a situation better.
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2005, 07:19:23 am »
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Oops - I apologise, it may not be listed as a forum rule... but it does help people understand a situation better.
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I'd rather have someone with no sig than the idiotic half-page sigs I see regularly. They take a whole page on the Z screen as well  
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2005, 03:53:15 pm »
here's my libncurses stuff from /usr/lib tar'd up

I know it's been a while, but I've been busy with other stuff / try to solve my own problems.  There is a 263K file for libncurses.4.0, and all the other files in your archive are all 0 bytes.  Did you make an alias for libncurses5?

I've done some fairly extensive searches, and it seems (dot)5 is hard to find.  I'll try kermit, and see if I'm more successful.
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« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2005, 05:09:08 pm »
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been busy with other stuff / try to solve my own problems.  There is a 263K file for libncurses.4.0, and all the other files in your archive are all 0 bytes.  Did you make an alias for libncurses5?

the other files are soft links.

seems I now have libncurses.so.5.4, courtesy of cacko-full, there are links to it called libncurses.so.5, libncurses.so.5.0 and libncurses.so

do you want a tar.gz of these as well?
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« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2005, 07:14:02 pm »
Yes, that would be swell.
I've got kermit installed and running.  I've never used it before, so the commands are a stumbling block.  In addition, it was built for a 5500, so I'm not sure if I'm on the right track.
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« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2005, 10:14:33 am »
ok, here's the library. just make links to it as I said in previous post.
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« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2005, 01:43:30 pm »
I found this extremely minimal terminal program which you might find useful, depending on your needs.  I think I originally found it on zsi or elsi under the name tipterm but the ipk was messed up.  I fixed the ipk and found the source code for it (both are attached).  The author claims it is tip-like but it is definitely not a port of tip.  It's a very simple command line-based app that simply lets you type to the serial port while it echoes back characters from the serial port.  If you run it in a vt100 shell you get vt100 support.   If you connect to a modem with it and you know the AT command set, you have modem support.   It should be compilable on virtually any linux/unix.

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« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2005, 01:54:59 pm »
sweet.  I'll load it up when I get home.  Unfortunately the security admin at work just told me he doesn't want my Z touching any servers.

BTW are you going to load this up to elsix.org?
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« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2005, 12:00:07 pm »
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sweet.  I'll load it up when I get home.  Unfortunately the security admin at work just told me he doesn't want my Z touching any servers.

BTW are you going to load this up to elsix.org?
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I wasn't going to because it's already there ([a href=\"http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=977]http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=977[/url]) and I'm not the author.  The download link in that entry only gives a binary.  There is a link to the project homepage but it was difficult to find the app there.  I finally found it on their ftp server: there was an ipk (but it was bad) along with the source.

I guess I could submit the fixed ipk but I can't seem to figure out how to do it.  Do I have to take ownership of the project before I can update it?

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