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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>
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Subject: Re: Serial communication, terminal
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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