Thank you all for the replies.
I ended up using busybox successfully as suggested above. I am running
Android on the Beagle Board. I did the following (for anyone else who
has the same question in the future):
1. Downloaded the busybox binary
2. Copied the binary to /data/busybox on the data partition of my SD card
3. Booted Android with a minicom connection through serial
4. Executed the following command in minicom to install all of the
busybox commands:
./busybox --install
5. Added the busybox directory to the PATH env. variable:
export PATH=$PATH:/data/busybox
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dianne Hackborn<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Abhinayak Mishra <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> because phone makers don't want terminals available on their handsets! :)
>
> Actually it is because this is completely pointless to give to normal users.
>
> You can easily build the app and install it on any device you want yourself,
> though. Though the more typical way we get a terminal is:
>
> 1. Turn on adb debugging.
> 2. From desktop, "adb shell".
> 3. Enjoy shell.
>
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> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
>
>
> >
>
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