Serial admin console program

[Jared Watkins]

Alan Johnson wrote:
> I've been using minicom (or trying to) to manage some network devices 
> over their serial ports, but it is not pretty.  Minicom appears to be 
> too focused on modems to work well with my serial devices.  I'm sure 
> there is a better way, but I just can't seem to find it.  I'm looking 
> for something provides the functionality that hyperterm does where you 
> can just say "connect to this port and at out of the way".   But, of 
> course, I to use it on remote servers via ssh, so it can't actually be 
> a GUI.   Any suggestions?  Maybe a way to config minicom that I 
> haven't found yet?
>
You can also do this with one of my favorite little utilities... 
screen.   'screen /dev/ttyS0 38400' for instance.. then the standard 
commands apply inside screen.  Not so much of a gui but...

Jared