serial I/O with Linux?

[bababooey182]

At some point I need to figure out how to use the serial I/O interface when connected to a Linux PC. I'm assuming kermit is the best software to use. Has anyone already figured out all the settings/parameters (e.g. the character delay and line delay) for kermit?

If no one has details, I'll post what I figure out...

[programsynthesiser]

It should be a relatively simple thing to do, all hyperterminal on windows is is terminal software. Linux has many programs that can do the same thing. As long as you set it up with the same bitrate and whatever kind of handshaking it should use, then it should work.

[bababooey182]

I did spend some time with this recently. I tried ckermit and minicom. I was able to get kermit to perform a basic serial connection so that interactive typing worked fine. But I couldn't get it configured to do the equivalent of Hyperterminal's "character delay", so sending a text file or pasting a text file into kermit appeared to proceed without any intercharacter delays. That leads to garbage on the Replica 1.

Similar attempts with minicom's ascii transfer program didn't yield any solutions.

So bascially kermit can create a workable interactive serial connection to the Replica 1, but the main point of the serial I/O interface on the Replica 1 is to upload programs, which I couldn't get to work.

Any other ideas for serial connections from Linux?

[djrosen]

With just a few minor setting changes, I have gotten Minicom to transfer files with fewer errors than Hyperterminal. Other than the serial port settings, the only other changes from the default are to turn linefeeds on (ctrl-a a,) set the terminal emulaton to ANSI (ctrl-a t,) and modify the file transfer protocol settings (ctrl-a o) so that the ASCII tranfer line reads "/usr/bin/ascii-xfr -sn -l 500 -c 20" instead of the default and turned FullScr on to view each line as it is transferred. Vince's Star Trek ran without a hitch after an upload this way, the same code transfered with Hyperterminal required considerable repair.

[vbriel]

Nice work. I'm actually surprised that you are the first to come forward with the solution. I just don't have the time to set up a Linux box and play right now

Vince