Program to "talk" to serial port?
Reid Thompson
reid.thompson@ateb.com
Wed Oct 20 01:30:00 GMT 2004
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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