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Serial port / terminal software question...

Post by Landon »

Hi,

Long story short I'm trying to help someone access the computer on a piece of construction equipment and all that it has is an old school nine pin serial port.

My laptop has Linux Mint 19.3 on it and I am planning on ordering one of these (which says that it is Linux compatible): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017CZ3FZ2

So my question is... years ago (1990's) I used to use Telemate under MS-DOS 4.1 - 6.22 to connect to a modem with but I was wondering what is a good terminal program that will let me do this these days?
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Re: Serial port / terminal software question...

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I don't know this old DOS program.
Check if this helps:
http://www.starbase21.net/telemate.html
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minicom would do quite well

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sudo apt-get install minicom
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Alternative to minicom is cutecom

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sudo apt install cutecom
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Post by TI58C »

When -or rather before- working with the serial port, remember that the user has to be a member of the group called "dialout".

If not....NO JOY !

Did take me a while to figure out when connecting an old Garmin Geko GPS.
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