[PLUG] minicom scripting?

Bill Barry barryb at proaxis.com
Wed Dec 10 23:57:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:12:27PM -0800, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:38:36PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> > 
> > A neighbor asked me to help him push a text file from Linux over a
> > serial port to a 3D milling machine.  First I try to sell him on using
> > the print spooler (which I think would be kind of cool).  No dice,
> > besides he's still using sneaker net.  So I fire up minicom, set the
> > comm parameters and save it to a special configuration.  He just wants
> > to send a file as ASCII, so in conventional-interface minicom there is
> > a lot clicky-click to get to the right spot to enter the filename.
> > I'd like to script that for him.  I noticed that minicom has some
> > scripting capability, but it wasn't documented in the man page.  Does
> > anyone know how to script sending a file in minicom, or a more direct
> > way to stuff a file out the serial port (at 2400 baud 7E1)?
> > 
> 
> How about 
> cat foo > /dev/ttyS0
> 

I forgot about the 2400 baud 7e1
stty cs7 -parodd 2400 < /dev/ttyS0

Is there any other reason this will not work?

Bill Barry




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