Serial Console Applications?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:

>
> On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Ward Vandewege wrote:
>> The  cu  command  is  used  to call up another system and act as a
>> dial in terminal.  It can also do simple file transfers with no error 
>> checking.
>> 
>> It's command line based. Might be just what you need. The binary on my 
>> Debian
>> system is 145K, which I'm sure could be reduced.
>
> Sounds good, but I can't find a gentoo package that includes it. I'll search 
> around the web for it.
>
> I did find its man page on die.net, and I noticed the BUGS section has this 
> to say:
>
> "This program does not work very well"

It is sometimes bundled with the UUCP package.