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Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application
Authored by: dkwyman on Oct 29, '04 09:49:25AM

The open source "screen" command is pre-installed in the Mac OS X.
Solaris users will recall the "tip" command. I use "screen" and a
USB-serial adapter when I need quick-and-dirty terminal emulation
via a serial port.
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screen man page:

screen -r [[pid.]tty[.host]]
screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]]

DESCRIPTION
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a
physical terminal between several processes (typically
interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the
functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, sev-
eral control functions from the ISO 6492 (ECMA 48, ANSI
X3.64) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and
support for multiple character sets). There is a scroll-
back history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-
and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions
between windows.
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Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application
Authored by: clueless on Oct 29, '04 10:05:50AM

No tip in Jaguar



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BSD tip builds and runs
Authored by: SlewSys on Oct 29, '04 09:17:43PM

For the curious - the FreeBSD tip(1) source builds and runs on MacOSX as is - just remove the FreeBSD macros `__FBSDID($FREEBSD$);' and use bsdmake(1). To attach to the modem, use `cu -l /dev/tty.modem'.



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BSD tip builds and runs
Authored by: rgunzip on Oct 31, '04 09:14:48PM

I would absolutely love to recover my old cu utility, but I searched through the FreeBSD ports database and they don't have a specific "tip" port. Could you give us more details on how to get tip or cu to work on OSX (where to find the source, what to change in the code to get it to compile it, ect...).

I did try to compile UUCP a while back but I was never able to squeeze a binary out of the source code.

Thanks for the "TIP"

CU

;-)



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Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application
Authored by: dkwyman on Nov 03, '04 12:33:29PM

I should not have alluded to "tip" in Solaris... it confused folks.

The command that's pre-installed in Jaguar/Panther is "screen"
(refer to the "screen" man pages via the terminal).

I'll leave comments about "cu" to someone else.



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Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application
Authored by: jce on Oct 29, '04 12:40:19PM

Could you please give the exact syntax of the screen-command you use to connect to tty.modem and to your USB-Serial-Adapter.

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Jean-Claude Eischen
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich - Switzerland



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Use minicom as a serial-interface terminal application
Authored by: malfunction54 on Nov 05, '04 12:33:34AM

Thank you!!! I've been trying to figure out how to get tip/cu finctionality out of OSX. I was using zterm, but it crashes hard, and I can't kill it, even with a "kill -9" I have a soekris Net4801 that I would like to connect to via a IOGear USB-Serial adapter. This did the trick!

FYI, the command was:

screen /dev/tty.usbserial (depends on the device your driver creates)

-Andy



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