Log in from a terminal without color support, and you have set MINICOM in your startup (.profile or equivalent) file, and don't want to re-set your environment Or the equivalent, and start minicom, minicom will assume that your terminal has a Meta or key and that color is supported. When minicom starts, it first searches the MINICOM environment variable for command-line arguments, which can be over-ridden on the command line. (For exampleĭisplaying Finnish text doesn't need this.) Not needed in every language with 8bit characters. This mode is to display 8bit multi-byte characters such as Japanese. 'Continuous' means no locate/attribute control sequences are inserted without real change of 8bit is default if the environment is configured for this via LANG or LC_ALL, 7bit otherwise.Ĩbit characters pass through without any modification. For example, /dev/ttyp1, pts/0 or /dev/ptyp2.ĭisable the display of the online time in the status bar.ħbit mode for terminals which aren't 8bit capable. Must be of the form (/dev/)tty, (/dev/)pts or (/dev/)pty. This overrides the terminal port defined in the configuration files, but only if it is a pseudo tty. The dialing will start from the first entry specified after all other program initialization procedures are completed. You can also specify multiple names or index numbers by separating them withĬommas. Name that has multiple entries in the directory, they are all tagged for dialing. You can specify an index number, but also a substring of the name of the entry. Start dialing at startup, the -S script will be run BEFORE dialing the entries specified with -d.ĭial an entry from the dialing directory on startup.
#What is minicom password
So far, passing username and password to a startup script is not supported. '-m' option, are good candidates to put into the MINICOM environment variable. Support for color, these escape sequences are hard-coded into minicom. Some terminals (such as the Linux console) support color with the standard ANSI escape sequences. Line characters are displayed untranslated.Ĭolor usage. This is handy for use in the MINICOM environment variable one canĬreate a special termcap entry for use with minicom on the console, that initializes the screen to raw mode so that in conjunction with the -l flag, the IBM With this flag, you can override the environment TERM variable. By default, minicom uses '-a on',īut if you are using such a terminal you can (must!) supply the option '-a off'. Some terminals, notably Televideo's, have rotten attribute handling (serial instead of parallel). Turns line-wrap on at startup by default.Īttribute usage. PC-unix clones will display character correctly without translation (Linux in a special mode, Coherent and Sco).ĭitto but assume screen uses an ISO8859 character set. With this flag on, minicom will try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII. Literal translation of characters with the high bit set. This only works on terminals that support it and that have the relevant information in their termcap or terminfo Same as -m, but assumes that your Meta key sets the 8th bit of the character high (sends 128 + character code). Minicom assumes that your Meta key sends the ESC prefix, not the other variant that sets the highest bit of the Terminals all the time, of which some don't have a Meta or ALT key, it's handy to set the default command key to Ctrl-A and use this option when you have a This is the default in 1.80 and it can also be configured in one of minicom's menus, but if you use different Override command-key with the Meta or ALT key. For now it is assumed, that users who are given access to a modem are responsible enough for their actions. is made, so a normal user could interfere with things like uucp. It is potentially dangerous though: no check for lock files etc. This option is handy if you quitted from minicom without resetting, and then want to restart a Minicom will skip the initialization code. This is very handy if minicom refuses to start up because your system has changed, or for the first time you run minicom.įor most systems, reasonable defaults are already compiled in.ĭo not initialize. When it is used, minicom does not initialize, but puts youĭirectly into the configuration menu. Root edits the system-wide defaults in /etc/minirc.dfl with this option.
#What is minicom serial
Minicom is a communication program which somewhat resembles the shareware program TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most unices.įeatures include dialing directory with auto-redial, support for UUCP-style lock files on serial devices, a separate script language interpreter, capture toįile, multiple users with individual configurations, and more.