[Xastir] Good serial port comm program for linux

[Rick Green]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:

> A great thanks of appreciation to all who answered by cry for help.  I did 
> get minicom to finally do what I wanted with regards to /dev/ttyS0.  As 
> suggested, I made myself a member of the dialout group.  I also made an 
> attempt to do something similar to the kiss-off.pl script (called it 
> kiss-on.pl).  But, the results were inconsistent.  I would bring up xastir 
> (to establish the port's baudrate), STOP the /dev/ttyS0 device, execute the 
> kiss-on.pl script in a terminal window, then START the /dev/ttyS0 device in 
> xastir.  About half the time it would work.
>
> If minicom had a means of executing a script upon being started, then I might 
> have shortened my time to a solution.

Gee, you asked for help with a terminal program, when what you really 
wanted was a way to script a terminal session to initialize your TNC.

Read the manpages for 'setserial' and 'chat', and I think you'll find the 
tool for the job...

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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