Re: Existance of a Simple Serial Shell?

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- Grant Edwards
  
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19 years ago

Fri, Nov 12, 2004 12:43 AM

>> Anyone know of a simple shell that can be run over a serial port for
>>> doing file access on a windows host? I just need to do file copies and >>> list directories, delete files. >> >> Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write one. >> Sometimes, I just try to take the easy way out of habbit. > > You should be able to get the source to something like telnet from one of > the Linux distros. Would that work for you?

Huh? Telnet isn't a shell. It's a TCP protocol handler. He doesn't want to communication via TCP, he wants to communicate via a serial port.

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19 years ago

Sat, Nov 13, 2004 5:15 PM

I don't supopse there's a WinCE port of busybox?

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19 years ago

Mon, Nov 15, 2004 11:57 AM

I was curious about taking a look at busybox, I would imagine that there would be no port but that making one would be a semi simple matter of exchaning linux file access with windows APIs (basically wrap all the APIs to look like the same linux calls). That did come to mind first. T.

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19 years ago

Mon, Nov 15, 2004 12:14 PM

Maybe there's a kermit server for Windows, by now? You might be able to provoke something like that to talking to a cmd shell. You could certainly use it for file downloads and uploads.

What you're describing sounds like ftp over a serial link, rather than a full-blown shell.

Modern windows has a telnet server that fires up a cmd session. (And an FTP server?) Use some sort of PPP server to establish an IP connection over your serial link and you can use the whole gammut of TCP/IP tools.

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