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Debian discussions make political discussions seem quick and fast acting by comparison > He said that he uses cu ""almost constantly for interacting with embe
by raverbashing 1y ago
Debian discussions make political discussions seem quick and fast acting by comparison
> He said that he uses cu ""almost constantly for interacting with embedded serial consoles on devices a USB connection away from my laptop""
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
There are a million better ways of doing this.
- munchlax 1y agocu is the regular way of doing it I don't see the problem. Minicom and even picocom are bloated compared to cu
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- kees99 1y agoI use GNU screen for that. Looking at cu, it looks to be just as tiny and has ssh-like tilda-escapes, including "~." to disconnect. Nice, gotta try it out, thanks!
- ExoticPearTree 1y agoI got used to using minicom way way back. Has a nice TUI and can do stuff.
- ta1243 1y agoI only moved to using screen about 2 years ago after over 2 decades of minicom
- raverbashing 1y agocu might be good for anything that you have a fixed config, otherwise I'll just go with minicom
- Hackbraten 1y agoOne comment [0] highlights a point in favor of the current implementation: > create a lock file for every dial-in line to prevent its use by programs looking for a dial-out line. [0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/1042594/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042594/
- MobiusHorizons 1y agoWhat would you suggest? Personally I find cu the closest to ssh in ergonomics to any of the tui serial terminal programs, and it’s easily available across unixes like FreeBSD or Mac OS, which is a bonus.