Re: Program to "talk" to serial port?

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 09:09 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
>I need a program that can talk to a serial port on the local computer,
>the way Hyperterm does for Microsoft Windows.
>
>I would like this program to present its user interface in an xterm.
>If that is not possible, perhaps a program that is itself an X11
>client would do.
>
>I was able to compile "minicom" under cygwin.  However, when minicom
>launches, it tries to access /dev/ttyS1, which is not provided by
>cygwin.


Why do you say that?  I did this:

$ ls /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1

Does it not for you?



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