On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal > program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to > routers and the like: > screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600 > > "Ctrl-A Shift-K" will exit. "Ctrl-A i" will give you a nice little display > of what the serial control lines are doing. > > I haven't tried it under Linux, but it should work the same. Of course > you'd substitute /dev/ttyS0 or whatever device you're using for > /dev/tty.usbserial.
I tried it on a sid box, but just end up with screen showing a shell on the local host, i.e., the same as without those arguments. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
