[97484] in RedHat Linux List
Re: strange characters killing terminal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Tue Nov 3 11:17:32 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 15:56:57 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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"Heltzel, Dennis" wrote:
>
> This is an interesting problem. Are you running a getty type program on the
> serial port on the Linux box, or do you have a program like 'minicom'
> running and doing screen logging ?
> I did something similar several years back, but I used stty to set the line
> paramaters, and then 'cat /dev/ttyS0 > filename' to do the actual capture,
> so no character interpretation was done.
I'm using cu -l to control the line, and redirecting its output to a
file, just like cat. For some reason nothing else would set the serial
line's baud rate properly.
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