Re: [avr-chat] Using Minicom (WAS Linux : any good ASCII terminal ?)

[David Kelly]

On Sep 11, 2005, at 4:24 AM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> > As root:
> >
> > minicom -s /dev/ttyS0
> > Or whatever your serial port is.  Go through the menus.
>
> Thanks Chris, I didn't think Minicom had such an advanced/rich UI.
> I did search all the menus and set all the details of my connection (I
> think !) and saved it as 'AVR'. But doesn't work. Tried exiting  
> Minicom
> and the AVR board, then starting Minico like this (after looking at  
> the
> man page) to load my 'AVR' configuration file :
>
> "sudo Minicom -o AVR"
>
> but Minicom keeps using the default setting (modem etc), and in the  
> menu
> I can see an option "Save config as AVR", but no option to "Load AVR",
> or such... hmmmmmm....

Yeah, that's several of the reasons I use kermit. No GUI to wade  
thru. No sudo or root silliness. No doing of anything other than what  
is expected. On FreeBSD the only difference is we use /dev/cuaa0  
rather than ttyS0 as shown below:

(as plain old non-root user)
% kermit -l /dev/ttyS0 -b 9600

Or better yet write this in ~/.kermrc and simply "kermit" to start:

set line /dev/ttyS0
set speed 9600
set flow none
set carrier-watch off
connect

Pretty darn simple and straight forward. The carrier-watch thing  
tells Kermit to ignore DTR. Guessing this is what you want, its not  
what you would want with a modem. Without the connect line kermit  
starts in command mode. Type "c <return>" to connect. Control-\Q to  
hangup and exit. Control-\? to see what other choices you have.

Using the above .kermrc if one wishes to log the session text for  
later analysis then type Control-\C back to the kermit command mode,  
"log session myloggedsession.log<return>" and then "c <return>".  
Without the connect line in ~/.kermrc it starts in the kermit command  
mode.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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