[Wylug-help] sending to a serial port.

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm wanting to send and receive cnc programs from my laptop to a machine
> at work.  It is a 25 pin on the machine, so I have a cable with 25 pin
> to 9 pin, then a cable 9 pin to usb.  I'm not sure how I will go about
> sending and receiving with linux.
> Is there something similar to windows hyperterminal I could use?  Or can
> anyone recommend some software for the job?

As one whose been around for too many years I use Kermit.
I've never learned to like minicom.

In debian based systems, e.g. ubuntu, do

   apt-get install ckermit

Or if you want to program/script stuff you can use expect, an extension to 
the Tcl scripting language. I think there's also a Perl "expect" module.