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Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working



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, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu



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