Warren Young wrote at 12:34 -0600 on Jun 9, 2016: > On Jun 7, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> > wrote: > > > > > > cu is the normal Unixy way of using a remote USB->serial line, but I can't > > find it in Cygwin packages > > Taylor UUCP builds out of the box on Cygwin: > > $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/uucp/uucp-1.07.tar.gz > $ tar xf uucp-1.07.tar.gz > $ cd uucp-1.07 > $ configure && make -j11 > $ ./cu --version > cu (Taylor UUCP) 1.07 > Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 1995, 2002 Ian Lance Taylor > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of > the GNU General Public LIcense. This program has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > > searching for \<cu\>, and cu spews too many hits. > > When searching on the Cygwin package search page, adding .exe to executables > narrows the results considerably. > > As it happens, there is a Cygwin package shipping *cu.exe, but it is not the > cu(1) you are looking for. Move along. > > Adding a leading slash fixes that: > > Found 0 matches for /cu.exe > > If you were searching elsewhere (e.g. Google) then, yes, “cu” is a bad > search term. But if you knew that cu comes from the UUCP package, “cu uucp” > leads you right to Taylor UUCP. > > See, I *knew* there was a reason I was spending my days on amber VT220s > hacking Unix back when I could have been out making Vitamin D!
miniterm.py is a nice cross-platform (pure python) serial program that is CLI (like tip/cu). It's part of the pyserial package. In the past, it (pyserial) has not been in the cygwin repo, but it may be now. If not, just install python-setuptools and do 'easy_install pyserial'. I've used 'pip install pyserial' as well (but probably had to 'easy_install pip' since pip also isn't cygwin-packagified either). I always meant to package pyserial for cygwin but never got around to it. A nice feature is the ability to toggle dynamically between different settings including presentation modes (raw, escaped control characters, hex), baud rate, flow ctrl or not, cr/lf line endings. Plus it's easy to write little python scripts using the pyserial API to twiddle things on the serial port (http://pythonhosted.org/pyserial/). Here's the live help screen: --- pySerial (2.7) - miniterm - help --- --- Ctrl+] Exit program --- Ctrl+T Menu escape key, followed by: --- Menu keys: --- Ctrl+T Send the menu character itself to remote --- Ctrl+] Send the exit character itself to remote --- Ctrl+I Show info --- Ctrl+U Upload file (prompt will be shown) --- Toggles: --- Ctrl+R RTS Ctrl+E local echo --- Ctrl+D DTR Ctrl+B BREAK --- Ctrl+L line feed Ctrl+A Cycle repr mode --- --- Port settings (Ctrl+T followed by the following): --- p change port --- 7 8 set data bits --- n e o s m change parity (None, Even, Odd, Space, Mark) --- 1 2 3 set stop bits (1, 2, 1.5) --- b change baud rate --- x X disable/enable software flow control --- r R disable/enable hardware flow control and --help: miniterm.py --help Usage: miniterm.py [options] [port [baudrate]] Miniterm - A simple terminal program for the serial port. Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit Port settings: -p PORT, --port=PORT port, a number or a device name. (deprecated option, use parameter instead) -b BAUDRATE, --baud=BAUDRATE set baud rate, default 9600 --parity=PARITY set parity, one of [N, E, O, S, M], default=N --rtscts enable RTS/CTS flow control (default off) --xonxoff enable software flow control (default off) --rts=RTS_STATE set initial RTS line state (possible values: 0, 1) --dtr=DTR_STATE set initial DTR line state (possible values: 0, 1) Data handling: -e, --echo enable local echo (default off) --cr do not send CR+LF, send CR only --lf do not send CR+LF, send LF only -D, --debug debug received data (escape non-printable chars) --debug can be given multiple times: 0: just print what is received 1: escape non-printable characters, do newlines as unusual 2: escape non-printable characters, newlines too 3: hex dump everything Hotkeys: --exit-char=EXIT_CHAR ASCII code of special character that is used to exit the application --menu-char=MENU_CHAR ASCII code of special character that is used to control miniterm (menu) Diagnostics: -q, --quiet suppress non-error messages -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
