Re: Existance of a Simple Serial Shell?

Nov 12, 2004 3 Replies
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>> 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.
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> 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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I don't supopse there's a WinCE port of busybox?

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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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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.

Andrew
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