http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/02/21/screen-as-a-terminal-emulator en-us 40 My God, It's Full of Source! <p>I&#8217;ve been using minicom for doing serial device work. It was designed as a modem dial-up tool, but works fine for configuring switches, etc. Well, it turns out my new laptop didn&#8217;t have minicom, and for some reason fink under 10.4 doesn&#8217;t have it as a package (it can be built from source or downloaded as a staticly linked binary). Researching options, I stumbled across the seemingly obvious - screen(1) makes a fine terminal emulator for basic tasks. Just run <code>screen /dev/serial-device</code> and you&#8217;re off to the races, at 9600N81 by default. It takes parameters for other line conditions.</p> Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:31:00 -0500 urn:uuid:cc71e9c7-f051-41e9-a4e5-340a3585abbf Bill McGonigle http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/02/21/screen-as-a-terminal-emulator Hardware Open Source Linux Mac serial terminal http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/trackback/448