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.\" It may be distributed under the GNU Public License, version 2, or
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.\" any higher version. See section COPYING of the GNU Public license
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.\" for conditions under which this file may be redistributed.
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.TH MINICOM 1 "$Date: 2003/04/26 07:31:06 $" "User's Manual"
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.TH MINICOM 1 "$Date: 2005/11/06 19:22:07 $" "User's Manual" "Version 2.1"
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minicom \- friendly serial communication program
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.RI "[-somMlwz8] [-c on|off] [-S script] [-d entry]"
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.RI "[\-somMlwz8] [\-c on|off] [\-S script] [\-d entry]"
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.RI "[-a on|off] [-t term] [-p pty] [-C capturefile] [" configuration ]
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.RI "[\-a on|off] [\-t term] [\-p pty] [\-C capturefile] [" configuration ]
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is a communication program which somewhat resembles the shareware
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program TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most unices.
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Features include dialing directory with auto-redial, support for
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UUCP-style lock files on serial devices, a seperate script language
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UUCP-style lock files on serial devices, a separate script language
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interpreter, capture to file, multiple users with individual
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configurations, and more.
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Root edits the system-wide defaults in /etc/minirc.dfl with this option.
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When it is used, minicom does
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assumes that your Meta key sends the ESC prefix, not the other variant
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that sets the highest bit of the character.
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Same as -m, but assumes that your Meta key sets the 8th bit of the
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Same as \-m, but assumes that your Meta key sets the 8th bit of the
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character high (sends 128 + character code).
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Use terminal status line. This only works on terminals that support it
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and that have the relevant information in their \fItermcap\fP or
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\fIterminfo\fP database entry.
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translation of characters with the high bit set. With this flag on,
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minicom will not try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII,
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but passes them straight trough. Many PC-unix clones will display
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them correctly without translation (Linux in a special mode, Coherent
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minicom will try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII. Many PC-unix
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clones will display charachter correctly without translation (Linux in a
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special mode, Coherent and Sco).
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Ditto but assume screen uses an ISO8859 character set.
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Turns linewrap on at startup by default.
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usage. Some terminals, notably televideo's, have a rotten attribute
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handling (serial instead of parallel). By default, minicom uses '-a
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usage. Some terminals, notably Televideo's, have rotten attribute
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handling (serial instead of parallel). By default, minicom uses '\-a
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on', but if you are using such a terminal you can (must!) supply the
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option '-a off'. The trailing 'on' or 'off' is needed.
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option '\-a off'. The trailing 'on' or 'off' is needed.
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type. With this flag, you can override the environment TERM variable.
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This is handy for use in the MINICOM environment variable; one can create
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a special termcap entry for use with minicom on the console, that
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initializes the screen to raw mode so that in conjunction with the -l
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initializes the screen to raw mode so that in conjunction with the \-l
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flag, the IBM line characters are displayed untranslated.
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usage. Some terminals (such as the Linux console) support color with
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the standard ANSI escape sequences. Because there is apparently no
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termcap support for color, these escape sequences are hard-coded into
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minicom. Therefore this option is off by default. You can turn it on
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with '-c on'. This, and the '-m' option, are good candidates to put
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with '\-c on'. This, and the '\-m' option, are good candidates to put
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into the MINICOM environment variable.
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Run the named script at startup. So far, passing username and password
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to a startup script is not supported. If you also use the -d option to
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start dialing at startup, the -S script will be run BEFORE dialing the
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entries specified with -d.
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to a startup script is not supported. If you also use the \-d option to
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start dialing at startup, the \-S script will be run BEFORE dialing the
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entries specified with \-d.
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an entry from the dialing directory on startup. You can specify an
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index number, but also a substring of the name of the entry. If you
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entry specified after all other program initialization procedures are
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to use. This overrrides the terminal port defined in the configuration
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to use. This overrides the terminal port defined in the configuration
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files, but only if it is a pseudo tty. The filename supplied must be of
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the form (/dev/)tty[p-z/][0-f], (/dev/)pts[p-z/][0-f] or
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(/dev/)pty[p-z/][0-f]. For example, /dev/ttyp1, pts/0 or /dev/ptyp2.
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Open capture file at startup.
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Disable the display of the online time in the status bar.
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'8bit clean' and 'continuous' mode. '8bit clean' means Minicom let
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7bit mode for terminals which aren't 8bit capable. 8bit is default if the
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environment is configured for this via LANG or LC_ALL, 7bit otherwise.
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8bit characters pass through without any modification. 'Continuous'
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means no locate/attribute control sequences are inserted without
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real change of locate/attribute. This mode is to display 8bit
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establishes, minicom goes 'online'. If the server closes the socket, minicom
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switches to 'offline' again.
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.B *B - Lock file location
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.B B - Lock file location
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On most systems This should be /usr/spool/uucp. Linux systems use
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/var/lock. If this directory does not exist,
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minicom will not attempt to use lockfiles.
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.B *C - Callin program
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.B C - Callin program
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If you have a uugetty or something on your serial port, it could be
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that you want a program to be run to switch the modem cq. port into
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dialin/dialout mode. This is the program to get into dialin mode.
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.B *D - Callout program
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.B D - Callout program
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And this to get into dialout mode.
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.B E - Bps/Par/Bits
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.B F - Background Color (menu)
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indicates the background color to use for
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all the configuration windows in minicom. Note that minicom will not allow
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you to set forground and background colors to the same value.
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you to set foreground and background colors to the same value.
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.B G - Foreground Color (term)
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indicates the foreground color to use in the terminal window.
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.B H - Background Color (term)
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indicates the background color to use in
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the terminal window. Note that minicom will not allow you to set forground
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the terminal window. Note that minicom will not allow you to set foreground
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and background colors to the same value.
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.B I - Foreground Color (stat)
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.B J - Background Color (stat)
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indicates the color to use in for the
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status bar. Note that minicom will allow you to set the status bar's
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forground and background colors to the same value. This will effectively
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make the status bar invisible but if these are your intensions, please
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foreground and background colors to the same value. This will effectively
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make the status bar invisible but if these are your intentions, please
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.B K - History buffer size
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.B "Save setup as.."
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Save the parameters under a special name. Whenever Minicom is started
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with this name as an argument, it will use these parameters. This
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option is of course priviliged to root.
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option is of course privileged to root.
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Escape from this menu without saving. This can also be done with ESC.
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.B "Exit from minicom"
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Only root will see this menu entry, if he/she started minicom with the '-s'
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Only root will see this menu entry, if he/she started minicom with the '\-s'
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option. This way, it is possible to change the configuration without
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actually running minicom.
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the remote system's termcap initialization strings (is).
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Minicom has now support for local languages. This means you can change most
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Minicom has support for local languages. This means you can change most
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of the English messages and other strings to another language by setting
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the environment variable LANG. On September 2001 the supported languages
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are Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Japanese, French, Polish, Czech, Russian
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Turkish is under construction.
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.SH "SECURITY ISSUES"
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Since Minicom is run setuid root on some computers, you probably want to
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restrict access to it. This is possible by using a configuration file
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in the same directory as the default files, called "minicom.users".
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The syntax of this file is as following:
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<username> <configuration> [configuration...]
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To allow user 'miquels' to use the default configuration, enter the
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following line into "minicom.users":
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If you want users to be able to use more than the default
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configurations, just add the names of those configurations behind the
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user name. If no configuration is given behind the username, minicom
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assumes that the user has access to all configurations.
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the environment variable LANG.
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If minicom is hung, kill it with SIGTERM . (This means kill -15, or
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If minicom is hung, kill it with SIGTERM . (This means kill \-15, or
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since sigterm is default, just plain "kill <minicompid>". This will
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cause a graceful exit of minicom, doing resets and everything.
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You may kill minicom from a script with the command "! killall -9 minicom"
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without hanging up the line. Without the -9 parameter, minicom first
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You may kill minicom from a script with the command "! killall \-9 minicom"
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without hanging up the line. Without the \-9 parameter, minicom first
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hangs up before exiting.
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Since a lot of escape sequences begin with ESC (Arrow up is ESC [ A),
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