Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!shaman!jiro From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: pcomm Message-ID: <1991May12.032441.11765@shaman.com> Date: 12 May 91 03:24:41 GMT References: Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Organization: Shaman Consulting Lines: 21 In article rwong@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Robert Wong) writes: > Has anyone managed to get pcomm (a telecommunications program > (non-graphical)) to work on the NeXT? If you have, do you have any hints? > Also, where can I get either the source code or the binaries for pcomm? I tried porting it and spent a good deal of my time before finally giving up. I think the sources are at uunet.uu.net. Try asking ARCHIE where they are. The short answer to a long porting session is: NO. They are written in the SYS V dialect of UNIX which doesn't share much TTY functionality with BSD UNIX. I found that I'd have to re-write much of the tty and i/o routines which would take me more time then I had. Try using kermit, it's less hassle. - jiro nakamura jiro@shaman.com -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem