microcom is a minimalistic terminal program for communicating with devices over a serial connection (e.g. embedded systems, switches, modems). It features connection via RS232 serial interfaces (including setting of transfer rates) as well as in "Telnet mode" as specified in RFC 2217.
microcom depends on the readline library.
If you just cloned this repository, you also need to install autoconf, automake, and the autoconf archive first. Then change to the project's root directy and do:
autoreconf -i
If you extracted microcom from a release tarball, this previous step should not be needed.
Now continue with building and installing microcom:
./configure
make
sudo make install
By default, microcom is installed into /usr/local/bin/. Use ./configure --prefix=YOURPATH to change that, and see ./configure --help for more
options related to building and installation.
The typical usage with TTY devices looks like this:
microcom --speed=115200 --port=/dev/ttyS0
To connect to remote serial ports via RFC 2217, use the --telnet option instead:
microcom --speed=115200 --telnet=somehost:port
For the full list of options, see microcom --help.
During the connection, you can get to the microcom menu by pressing Ctrl-\.
Various options are available there, like setting flow control, RTS and DTR.
See help for a full list.
microcom is free software and distributable under the GNU General Public
License, version 2. See the file COPYING in this repository for more
information.
Changes to microcom must be certified to be compatible with this license. For
this purpose, we use the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1; see the file
DCO in this repository. If you can certify that the DCO applies for your
changes, add a line like the following:
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>
… containing your real name and e-mail address at the end of the patch
description (Git can do this for you when you use git commit -s).
Then send your patches to [email protected], or, if you use GitHub,
open a pull-request on https://github.com/pengutronix/microcom.
If you send patches, please prefix your subject with "[PATCH microcom]" (for
example, see the git-config manpage for the option format.subjectPrefix).