Wow, I didn't know you could do that with screen. I'm never using minicom again! Thanks Jeremy. -Erik On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Olexa <jolexa at jolexa.net> wrote: > On 09/23/2010 03:32 PM, jkjones at tcq.net wrote: >> I'm trying to debug some old equipment and the serial comm protocols it >> uses.� Years ago I used to have a program which ran on a separate >> computer in the serial link.� The program displayed all the characters >> coming and going.� I don't remember any more than that, but it was >> probably an MS-DOS program.� Is there anything equivalent now, for >> Linux?� Some way to pass /dev/ttyS0 straight through to /dev/ttyS1 and >> display the incoming and outgoing characters, perhaps?� Thanks. >> >> Kraig > > There are tons of apps out there for serial access, just google for > "serial +linux" or so. This is especially hot in the embedded > development. Myself, I use GNU screen to connect to my arm computer with > a RS-232->USB converter since none of my computers have serial ports > anymore. "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200" I'm sure the same applies for ttyS0. > > Hope that helps, > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/