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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:06:38 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        FreeBSD mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Serial communication, terminal
Message-ID:  <20050112150250.Q95286@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <ia761p.mq4wjv@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <ia761p.mq4wjv@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Florian Hengstberger wrote:

> I have a microcontroller with an uart interface.
> I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port
> of my FreeBSD box.
> Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm?
> Case it is not: I don't want to write a program myself -
> is there an existing program handling the io?

See the man page for cu.  To connect to a serial device on the first 
serial port at 9600 baud, for example:

cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 9600

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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