#Linux minicom howto serial
#Linux minicom howto manual
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You can specify anindex number, but also a substring of the name of the entry. d Dialan entry from the dialing directory on startup. If you also use the -d option tostart dialing at startup, the -S script will be run BEFORE dialing theentries specified with -d. So far, passing username and passwordto a startup script is not supported. S script.Run the named script at startup. This, and the '-m' option, are good candidates to putinto the MINICOM environment variable. Because there is apparently notermcap support for color, these escape sequences are hard-coded intominicom. Some terminals (such as the Linux console) support color withthe standard ANSI escape sequences. With this flag, you can override the environment TERM variable.This is handy for use in the MINICOM environment variable one can createa special termcap entry for use with minicom on the console, thatinitializes the screen to raw mode so that in conjunction with the -lflag, the IBM line characters are displayed untranslated. By default, minicom uses '-aon', but if you are using such a terminal you can (must!) supply theoption '-a off'. Some terminals, notably Televideo's, have rotten attributehandling (serial instead of parallel). w Turns line-wrap on at startup by default. L Ditto but assume screen uses an ISO8859 character set. Many PC-unixclones will display character correctly without translation (Linux in aspecial mode, Coherent and Sco). With this flag on,minicom will try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII. l Literaltranslation of characters with the high bit set. This only works on terminals that support itand that have the relevant information in their termcap or terminfo database entry. M Same as -m, but assumes that your Meta key sets the 8th bit of thecharacter high (sends 128 + character code). Minicomassumes that your Meta key sends the ESC prefix, not the other variantthat sets the highest bit of the character. This is the default in 1.80and it can also be configured in one of minicom's menus, but if you use different terminals all the time, of which some don't have a Meta or ALT key,it's handy to set the default command key to Ctrl-A and use this optionwhen you have a keyboard supporting Meta or ALT keys. m Override command-key with the Meta or ALT key. For nowit is assumed, that users who are given access to a modem areresponsible enough for their actions. is made, so a normal user could interferewith things like uucp.

It is potentially dangerous though: nocheck for lock files etc. Thisoption is handy if you quitted from minicom without resetting, andthen want to restart a session. Minicom will skip the initialization code. For most systems, reasonable defaults are already compiled in. This is very handy if minicom refuses to start upbecause your system has changed, or for the first time you runminicom. When it is used, minicom does not initialize, but puts you directly into theconfiguration menu. COMMAND-LINE -s Setup.Root edits the system-wide defaults in /etc/minirc.dfl with this option.

#Linux minicom howto serial

DESCRIPTION minicomis a communication program which somewhat resembles the sharewareprogram TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most unices.Features include dialing directory with auto-redial, support forUUCP-style lock files on serial devices, a separate script languageinterpreter, capture to file, multiple users with individualconfigurations, and more. If your communication doesn't work, check the baud rate and parity are correct.Index NAMEminicom - friendly serial communication program SYNOPSIS minicom I never used this, but I made some applications with USB and DB9 and all them worked with 'offline' flag.

So, I think that the online/offline status is used only with UNIX sockets. If the server closes the socket, minicom switches to 'offline' again. As long as it cannot connect to the socket it stays 'offline'. Will then try to connect to this socket as a client.

#Linux minicom howto full

To use a UNIX socket for communication the device name must be prefixed with 'unix#' following by the full path and the filename of the socket. (However, you can't specify different init strings to them. When MiniРІР‚С’Р”В¬om starts, it checks the list until it finds an available modem and uses that one.

If you have modems connected to two or more serial ports, you may specify all of them here in a list separated by space, comma or semicolon. You may also have /dev/modem as a symlink to the Many newly installed systems with kernel 2.2.x or newer don't have them.

dev/cua is still possible under linux, but not recommended any more because these devices are obsolete and

#Linux minicom howto manual

I'm reading the minicom manual ( man minicom), I found this paragragh: Serial port setup