Re: Minicom for Cygwin

[Xantius <xantius at xantius dot com>]

chris@equate.dyndns.org wrote:

> > 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
>  
I was able to setup a root user on my system.  It was a PITA, but it did 
work.  There was a howto out there somewhere that I followed.  
Unfortunatly I can't find it again, so I can't tell you where it was.  
I'll post it if I find it.

Xantius

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