[Tfug] Simple serial comm with a device

[Joe Blais]

Thank you.

I tried tip, even did man 1 tip. I felt a bit dumb, I didn't know if he was
giving me a "tip" on what to do

I'll check out screen.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Shawn Nock
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:12 AM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Simple serial comm with a device
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> >
> > I can pipe or cat things over line by line, but I just have some
> > recollection of redirecting a virtual terminal to a port -
> perhaps it was a
> > dream (nightmare).
> >
> >
> >
> GNU screen might be what you want. screen /dev/ttySx . You can then chat
> with it. tip was already suggested... but most linuxes don't come with
> that these days (or it is in a package that I can't find).
>
> Shawn
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