On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:04 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Brian Inglis writes: > >>> Maybe try Windows putty non-TCP/IP serial I/O? > >> I was specifically trying to avoid a Windows program. > > putty is not a Windows program.
PuTTY started out as a Windows-only program and is certainly still best-known as a free GUI terminal program for Windows. If you were to give a free-association test to a sufficiently large set of random IT people, I’d bet there would be more who would answer “Windows” than with all non-Windows OS-related terms combined. What you should have said is that there is a Cygwin build of putty in the official Cygwin package repository. Unfortunately, it is a GUI program, which seems to go against the OP’s actual wish, which is for a command line program. If the OP can stand a curses terminal program (as opposed to a purely bytestream oriented program like cu or direct /dev/tty* access) then I’d suggest minicom. minicom builds out of the box on Cygwin *provided* that you have libiconv-devel and libncurses-devel installed. The configure script will diagnose the absence of the first, but it tries to work around the lack of the latter and fails during the build. $ wget https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3977/minicom-2.7.tar.gz $ tar xf minicom-2.7.tar.gz $ cd minicom-2.7 $ ./configure && make -j11 $ src/minicom --version minicom version 2.7 (compiled Jun 9 2016) Copyright (C) Miquel van Smoorenburg. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple