Hello RW, I use OpenBSD cu(1), which is of course fully featured and excellently documented. I guess at the time I was pointed at an _option_ and blindly looked for a command option. Then I found that shell redirection served my purpose (boot logging) equally well. But of course you're absolutely right..
Bill On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 17:57 +1100, RW wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:17:28 -0400, Mr. Bill wrote: > > >On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:22 -0500, Ted Phelps wrote: > > > >> > >> Don't tip/cu have any way of logging output to a file? Certainly > >> minicom does and I've used it in precisely the situation you describe. > >> > > > >No, cu(1) doesn't. When I first started using cu(1), I spent quite a bit > >of time looking for that elusive "serial output capture" option (manual, > >internet, /usr/share/doc,..). > 8><----<snip!> > > You must have had lousy man pages for cu or it was a lousy version of > cu. > Look in man for the ~s command used to set variables once connected and > look through the variables for "be" (beautify), "record" (=filename) > and "script". > > If your manpage doesn't have these try hitting ~? whilst connected to > see what escape commands are valid and ~v to show all values of > variables if they are set. > > "~s be" will set beautify to TRUE (dropping unprintable chars from > record file) > "~s !be" will turn beautify off. > > Also note that there is a way (~C) to fork a child process to do stuff > like X-modem. > > cu is olde worlde Unix. It is intimidating but potent and requires > users to have a good memory of some organic variety. You choose: grey > matter or ink on paper. Everybody needs his own subset of commands > noted well. > > If you need a good manpage try http://tinyurl.com/2bh8n7 > > Good luck. > > Rod/ > > A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into > a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. > > -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984. > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
