RE: Program to "talk" to serial port?

["Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin at imageworks dot com>]

I got it working with very helpful suggestions from list people last
week.  You need to unpack on a linux box and change every reference to
reserve word "aux"  to something else,  next comment out the tweak the
code to disable the root checking,  like this:

dobrin@THEODOLITE:/c/temp/minicom/minicom-2.1/src> diff config.c
config.c-orig 
185,190c185,188
< /*
<  *   if ((m->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid == 0) {
<  *       werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
<  *       return;
<  * }
<  */
---
>   if ((m->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid != 0) {
>         werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
>         return;
>   }
211,216c209,212
< /*
<  * if ((p->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid == 0) {
<  *    werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
<  *    return;
<  * }
<  */
---
>   if ((p->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid != 0) {
>       werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
>       return;
>   }
251,256c247,250
< /* 
<  *  if ((p->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid == 0) {
<  *    werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
<  *    return;
<  * }
<  */
---
>   if ((p->flags & PRIVATE) && real_uid != 0) {
>       werror(_("You are not allowed to change this parameter"));
>       return;
>   }
1314,1319c1308,1312
< /*
<  * if (real_uid == 0) {
<  *    werror(_("You are not allowed to create a configuration"));
<  *    return;
<  * }
<  */
---
>   if (real_uid != 0) {
>       werror(_("You are not allowed to create a configuration"));
>       return;
>   }


I also had to futz with the make file in ./po for some reason to get
Make install to work corectly

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of David Arnstein
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:10 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Program to "talk" to serial port?

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!
-- 
David Arnstein       
arnstein@pobox.com  

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