This patch causes minicom to flush the capture file output whenever
one of \b \n \r are received... thus causing your logs to be much
closer to real-time than when the stdio buffer fills up and gets
autoflushed.
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/comms/minicom/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.46 Makefile
--- Makefile 2006/07/13 06:47:09 1.46
+++ Makefile 2007/05/16 18:20:37
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ COMMENT= "MS-DOS Telix-like serial comm
VER= 2.00.0
DISTNAME= minicom-${VER}.src
-PKGNAME= minicom-${VER}p2
+PKGNAME= minicom-${VER}p3
CATEGORIES= comms
MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE:=apps/serialcomm/dialout/}
Index: patches/patch-src_vt100_c
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-src_vt100_c
diff -N patch-src_vt100_c
--- /dev/null Sat Aug 30 18:16:59 1997
+++ patches/patch-src_vt100_c Wed May 16 18:20:37 2007
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+$OpenBSD$
+--- src/vt100.c.orig Wed May 16 12:12:40 2007
++++ src/vt100.c Wed May 16 12:14:57 2007
+@@ -960,8 +960,10 @@ int ch;
+ wputc(vt_win, c);
+ if (vt_addlf) {
+ wputc(vt_win, '\n');
+- if (vt_docap == 1)
++ if (vt_docap == 1){
+ fputc('\n', vt_capfp);
++ fflush(vt_capfp);
++ }
+ }
+ break;
+ case '\t': /* Non - destructive TAB */
+@@ -1005,8 +1007,10 @@ int ch;
+ case '\b':
+ case 7: /* Bell */
+ wputc(vt_win, c);
+- if (vt_docap == 1)
++ if (vt_docap == 1) {
+ fputc(c, vt_capfp);
++ fflush(vt_capfp);
++ }
+ break;
+ default:
+ go_on = 1;
--
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
