[ale] Wanted: trivial minicom-type function

[Mills, John M.]

Christopher -

Thanks for these pointers to handy tools. I've used "Beej's Quick and
Dirty Guide" for a while and really appreciated it. Looks like he's
moved forward and offers more, and still excellent help.

 - Mills 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:56 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Wanted: trivial minicom-type function

CF> Create a config file for each port that describes its termios
settings:
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/mxml/

CF> Write a very simple network -> serial port piece of software.
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

CF> Then use termios to setup the serial port correctly and use select()
to
CF> pass data from the tty to the socket and back again.

We'll probably by the MsWin app: it's production tooling, but my app is
part of the embedded product.

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:48 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Remember that the Win32 package can not set the termios settings.
> You'll have to set that directly on the "terminal server".  A few
years
> back I wrote a program called 'ttyd' that would basically listen on a
> tcp port and connect that with a serial port.

Thanks again.