Re: Minicom for Cygwin

[chris at equate dot dyndns dot org]

> Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
>
>>Hello, Xantius!
>>
>>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still
>>>interested in minicom, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to kermit, but I would love to see
>>minicom as a cygwin package, installable via setup. These times I'm kind
>>of busy, but I'll ask my colleagues to test it.
>>
>>With kind regards,
>>Baurjan.
>>
>>
>>
> It seemed that previously there were a few people asking for minicom to
> be put into the cygwin release, but no response yet from the cygwin
> team.  I'd be glad to work with them to get it setup, because it'd make
> life a lot easier for people.  Any Cygwin gods listening?   :-)
>


I'd love to have it as a cygwin package..
I did manage to get it to compile myself, but I couldn't get it to start,
as it refused to go past the stage where I had to be root to set up a
config, which isn't really an option in cygwin..
On that note.. How did you get round it? :-)


Chris


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