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mdakin on Sept 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

It also gives OSX RS-232 terminal emulation capability. As far as I know OSX ships with no other such program. Once you get your USB dongle's driver situation under control you just:

screen device baud

ex:

screen /dev/tty.usbserial-FTDPZOEJ 115200

Very useful for embedded system hackers and others who still need to speak RS-232.

blasdel on Sept 28, 2009 | [–]

I have not used a single other serial console since I accidentally discovered this feature in screen a few years ago. Hyperterminal, minicom, gtkterm, et. al. were the bane of my existence.

_wiv7 on Sept 29, 2009 | [–]

Actually, OS X includes "cu" -- not that feature-rich, but it's been sufficient for me.

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