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From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:54:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: Capturing data on the serial port
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On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:42 AM, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:

> I have a need to temporarily capture data from our phone system via  
> the
> serial port on one of my FreeBSD servers.
>
> What would be the best way to do this?

I've done this with Minicom set up to log to a file.

/usr/ports/comms/minicom

--Chris