BSD program 'tip' for Linux?

[Database Administrator]

On 2007-05-26, polemon wrote:

>>>>>>> like something less elaborate, since there's no need for modem
>>>>>>> initialisation, for instance...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kermit.
>>>>>
>>>>> You must be joking.
>>>>
>>>> Nope. I've always found it to be a lot more reliable than
>>>> minicom. I use Kermit almost every day.
>>>
>>> Does it display ANSI colors?
>>
>> That's a function of the terminal, not of Kermit. If the
>> terminal in which you're running Kermit supports ANSI colors,
>> then you'll see ANSI colors.
>
> Well, that's of course possible,

How kind of you to allow the possibility that I'm telling the
truth.

> but my terminal that i ran minicom in, supported ANSI colors,
> but minicom did not display them.

Minicom is broken in a couple other ways as well (or at least
it was the last time I tried it).

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