[Wine] USB to serial adapter with TeraTerm, speed issues

[Martin Gregorie]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 19:09 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> On 18 February 2010 19:00, Martin Gregorie <martin at gregorie.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:01 -0600, anr78 wrote:
> 
> >> I installed TeraTerm today to use it with a Prolific USB to Serial
> >> Adapter. I created a symlink in dosdevices (ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 com1)
> 
> > There are perfectly good native equivalents: try minicom or kermit.
> > Kermit is considerably more powerful and can be scripted. It can deal
> > with serial ports both interactively and for file transfers and is also
> > a telnet and ftp client. It must be obtained from
> > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
> 
> 
> It's in the Ubuntu repos:
> 
> sudo apt-get install ckermit
> 
> It is or was in the repos for Fedora as well.
> 
I thought it was too, but it doesn't seem to be there for F10.
The copy I'm using was compiled and installed in /usr/local/bin by me
back in April 2007, so it can't have been part of the distro since F8 or
thereabouts.


Martin