Re: Program to "talk" to serial port?

[Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>]

David Arnstein 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.
>
> Would someone suggest a program that is suitable, or a program that
> might be portable to cygwin.  I am willing to do a bit of work on
> this.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!

mincom will work -- you need to configure it to use the proper ttySx,,
i.e. if you are using com1, configure  minicom to use /dev/ttyS0

reid

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