[sclug] Serial terminal emulator wanted

[Dickon Hood]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:38:08 +0100, Martin Summers wrote:
: Hello,

: I have never tried this tool, but you could take a look at PowerTerm:-

: http://freshmeat.net/projects/powerterm

: Its difficult to recommend an alternative to minicom, as I am not sure
: which features you really don't like in minicom, (all of it ?) and which
: features you need and would like implemented better !

To be fair, Minicom is a bit of a mess.

I recommend screen.  'screen /dev/ttyS0 9600 cs8' will do what you expect.

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