[Wolves] Telnet to serail device

[Ron Wellsted]

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Simon Burke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A bit of a stupid question, but it as i have never had to do it before.
> 
> I  may be getting a works laptop, to take on site with me and they are
> letting my put linux onto to it. Great i thought, but i've never had
> to try to start a telnet session with a serial device before.
> 
> Is it as simple as 'telnet /dev/ttyS1'? or am i completely wrong?
> 
> i havnt tried it quite yet but im going to at some point
> 

Nope, that won't work as telnet is for TCP/IP connections, not serial.

Take a look at minicom, a quite sophisticated program that provides the
functionality of the old Telix program from dial-up BBS days.

HTH

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Ron Wellsted
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