Re: [avr-chat] Alternatives for minicom

[Piotr Nikiel]

Hi Juergen,

doing screen /dev/your.serial.port
is usually another nice solution, as long as you are able to setup parameters 
of your port beforehand, using e.g. stty or other console utilities.
As I quite often use 9600 8N1 for my serial console on AVR systems, and that's 
the boot-up default for most serial ports,
I can just run screen right away.
Ctrl-A Ctrl-C to quit in case you got lost ;-)

Cheers, 
Piotr

On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Juergen Harms wrote:

> I am using (Linux platform - Mandriva/Mageia) minicom as a terminal emulator 
> on my serial port to display data received from my Atmel microprocessors.
> 
> I have had some problems making minicom on work a new Linux release - it 
> works now. But, solving the problem made me have a closer look at minicom: I 
> decided to explore alternatives (after patching
> it works nicely, but looking a the code it does not look "sound": 
> curses-based, all the not-needed modem stuff, lot of dead code carried along 
> for systems that pratcically do not exist any more, and the configuration 
> looks messy - conflicts between the nice curses based dynamic configuration 
> of minicom and the "make-oriented" static configuration mechanism in the 
> shipped package). The result is overly complex and looks diffcult to mainain 
> - how long will it survive?
> 
> What alternatives can other Linux users suggest? Thanks!
> 
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