Re: [avr-chat] bsd comms

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:03, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> I don't know for the other BSDs, but at least FreeBSD ships with a
> command called "tip" that you can use out of the box for simple
> communications.  Remember to use the "cua"-style devices, as they
> don't insist on the DCD line being asserted.  If you want more, I
> think you can find any number of communication programs in the ports
> collection:
>
> . kermit
> . minicom
> . Taylor UUCP has a cu command that offers a bit more than the
>   tip-based one from the base system

FreeBSD already includes cu in base..
Still pretty primitive though.

That said it usually suffices for 99% of all my serial work :)

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