On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > 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.
I googled for the Mac OS X screen manpage thinking it must be different, but it's identical to the one on my linux box. Any other hints on how that works or where/how it's documented? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
