[ale] GUI Telecomm program

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:07 pm, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> > Hi all, quick question.  Do you know of any program that runs in X
> > that has the functionality of Hyperterminal in windows?  Minicom is
> > OK, but I would like something gui based. Can't believe I just said
> > that!) I haven't been able to find anything yet. Anyways thanks for
> > the info/help.
> 
> There used to be a standard program named seyon that did this.  It has 
> not shipped on a recent distribution I know of in quite a while.  As I 
> recall, it had a kinda funky license which may have something to do 
> with getting dropped.  It wouldn't surprise me if you could still find 
> it on ibiblio.org, though, and it will probably still work.

Its security issues also contributed to it being dropped....  AFAIK, 
they've never been fixed.

later,
chris


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