From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 13:43: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (n2000039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7949B15012 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA90474; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:05:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <37C6EF66.8DB8513F@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:04:54 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Program used to test serial cable References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I am trying to connect two FreeBSD boxes via a RS232 serial cable. What > terminal program and any other program that can test the cable should I > use? I believe tip would do the trick nicely. Also the manual has some good info about serial cables in the setting up (serial) printers section. Including the answer to your question, I believe. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message