Re: Minicom binary for OS 5.0.5?

From: Bill Burns (billb_at_ftldesign.com)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: 24 Dec 2003 20:05:42 GMT

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:

> Bill Burns typed (on Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:41:48PM +0000):
>| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>|
>| > Bill Burns typed (on Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:17:18AM +0000):
>| >| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>| >|
>| >| > Bill Burns typed (on Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:48:03AM +0000):
>| >| >| Does anyone have a Minicom binary for OpenServer 5.0.5? I
>| >| >| don't have the 5.0.5 development system otherwise I would
>| >| >| attempt to compile Minicom from the source.
>| >| >|
>| >| >| For user compatibility with Linux systems at the same site
>| >| >| running Minicom, I need to install it on one SCO system.
>| >| >
>| >| > Are you referring to some atrocious communications program,
>| >| > which insisted on disabling a port before dialing out, and
>| >| > which also wanted to su to root?
>| >|
>| >| That sounds like it, but I believe the su problem has been
>| >| fixed on RedHat Linux at least.
>| >
>| > Communications programs should be su uucp.
>| >
>| I checked on RedHat 9 and it's set to uucp.
>|
>| But does anyone have the Minicom binary for OS 5.0.5?
>
> You could run an old Xenix binary.
>
> But why wouldn't you use xc instead?
>
I downloaded the xc files from your site, but I see they're source
only. As I noted above, I don't have a compiler for 5.0.5. I'd be
happy to try it if you have a binary available. 

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