Kermit? In "prior lives" I've done (I think) this exact thing
with Kermit. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit
-kc
>From: Peck Dickens ">peck@bellsouth.net>
>Subject: [ale] Terminal emulation program with API?
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:25:45 -0500
>
>Does anybody out there know of a serial terminal emulation
>program that has an API? I need to be able to download
>information from handheld data collection devices to a few Linux
>machines I am going to be installing at a customer site.
>
>What I have in mind is using TK/TCL as the front end to a serial
>terminal emuation program that has an API so the user(s) can
>have a consistant interface and not be forced to putz around
>with having a full blown serial terminal emulation program
>embedded in the application.
>
>Or if anybody has a better idea, please share it with me!
>
>Best
>
>Peck Dickens
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