On Wed, Oct 12 at 05:48, Terry Coles wrote:
>
> I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying
> the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a
> serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome-
> terminal or xterm to do that?
Run picocom in your xterm of choice for this. Picocom handles the serial
comms and the xterm interprets the ANSI escape sequences. There is even an
easy mechanism to envoke the file transfer program of your choise.
Several small programs working well together, true Unix.
Just spent the day configuring expect in front of such a combination,
so we can now, connect to a unit, work out what baudrate it's running,
at, upload three separate software files, check the hardware type and
perform a different configuartion sequence for each. Automating 20
minutes of previously tedious production work.
Avoid minicom, it tries to do it all, and hence does none of it well.
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