Serial Console Applications?

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Apr 13 10:58:16 EDT 2006


On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:49:00AM -0400, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> I'm looking for a lightweight serial-console program, ala minicom,  
> for an embedded system. I don't want to use minicom because it  
> depends on ncurses and a X/Y/Z-modem file transfer library, which is  
> too much bloat for this system. The program I have in mind doesn't  
> even need to have modem-dialing abilities. Any suggestions?

At the very low end, there's getty and relatives; somewhere in
the middle is Kermit.

-dsr-



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