Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.

1. Change to the minicom-$VERSION directory.
2. ./configure (see ./configure --help for options)
3. make
4. make install
5. minicom -s (for changing /etc/minicom you probably need to run it as root) Change what should be changed on your system, and choose Save setup as dfl from the configuration menu to save the changed settings as system defaults. Now add every user which should be allowed to use minicom to the group of the corresponding character devices (e.g. /dev/ttyS0). On Debian this group already exists and is called dialout.

Now you should have minicom compiled, installed and ready to use.

For more information, have a look at the other files.

WWW: For information about the newest version, what has changed since the previous version, and sometimes possibly the newest beta version (if there is one available), click here.

HG: Current development version of minicom is in the Alioth HG repository, click here for instructions.

If you want to use minicom with network-modem software, have a look at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/modem/modem-*.tar.gz by Merijn de Jonge mdejonge@wins.uva.nl.

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