Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

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.

It won't trigger nostalgia for Telix the way minicom does, though. ;)