What Is Your Favorite Terminal Setup?

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/12/2010 12:28 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:52:51PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>
>> http://www.torriefamily.org/~torriem/wiki/computer_stuff:shareterm
> 
> Thanks for posting this link.  By the way, I had never heard of socat
> before.  As far as I can tell with a quick skim of the man page, it
> looks like it's an alternative to nc (netcat).  Are there any
> significant differences that I might have missed?

socat can connect anything to anything, essentially.  In my case nc
almost worked, but without the pty the client attaches to, I couldn't
get things to work properly like setting the screen echo.