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Couldn't you just use minicom, picocom, or some similar tool inside tmux? Is there a unique feature of screen that is not satisfied by these standalone alternat

by raimue 12y ago

Couldn't you just use minicom, picocom, or some similar tool inside tmux? Is there a unique feature of screen that is not satisfied by these standalone alternatives? I am curious, as for me this setup is good enough to see debug messages on the serial console.

pilif 12y ago
The reason why I prefer screen over minicom is that minicom has a lot of features related to dialling modems and accessing mailboxes, none of which is relevant to the case of setting up equipment. A quick screen /dev/ttyS0 115200 beats writing a configuration file, learning another text based stateful UI and working around various instances of your tool trying to be helpful and helping you dialling a modem. Keep in mind that this could be related to the default minicom config my distro shipped back when I was "evaluating" my options, but because screen works totally well for my cases, I've had since zero motivation to go back and give minicom another try.
- duskwuff 12y ago
  You might want to give picocom a try. Equivalent command line is: picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyS0 It's also got a lot of serial-specific features closer to hand, like changing the baud rate, sending a break, toggling RTS/CTS, etc.
  - mzs 12y ago
    Or tip or cu too.