[PLUG] Talking to Serial Ports

[Steve Bonds]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, chaz at bctonline.com chaz at bctonline.com wrote:

> How do you talk to a device connected to a serial port?
> Using Red Hat 7.2
> Does Red Hat have anything like kermit?
> -chaz

I would look at minicom or C-Kermit.

Minicom can be twitchy since it defaults to trying to talk to a modem.  If
you turn off all the init strings in the config it makes a pretty decent
dumb terminal.

  -- Steve