#Mac screens terminal emulator how to
#Mac screens terminal emulator serial

Use 'screen' as a serial terminal emulator 29 comments Create New Account. If you prefer to use Minicom, you could still use the AppleScript to wrap it into a nice launchable app - use this older hint to find the right command line commands.

#Mac screens terminal emulator how to

If anyone can reply with a link to a tutorial on how to wrap an interactive Unix App in Cocoa, that would be the next step - it would be nice to do this without involving Terminal. You may want to customize this slightly - you can change the screen colors or number of columns or rows. KeySerial1' set number of rows of window 1 to set number of columns of window 1 to 80 set background color of window 1 to 'black' set normal text color of window 1 to 'green' set custom title of window 1 to 'SerialOut' end tell Compile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have a double-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session. Use screen, Terminal, and a little AppleScripting. Minicom requires installation of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex. It is not worth the shareware fee in its current form. The developer doesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. Two problems then present themselves: It hasn't been updated in five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. Use 'screen' as a serial terminal emulator Nov 14, '06 I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a Keyspan Serial Adapter to get access. More Mac Sites: Macworld MacUser iPhone Central. Anyone figure out a way to do that? Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. I'd like to be able to scroll up past the top to show more than one page of data. KYPackrat on Feb 11, '10 This is a fantastic thread. Nicholaz on Feb 10, '10 I used zterm initially and found it horrible too. You can also reattach to a detached screen by running ' screen -rD '.

Now how can I kill the screen session manually? You wrote: If you fail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the screen session manually. And of course no Mac except for Xserves have a serial port. I found on Apple's discussions board the following, which works: KeySerial1 Adjust the script accordingly and it works perfectly! I am currently taking 2 classes that use HyperTerminal, a Cisco test prep class and a basic Telecommunications classes. Kermit - I haven't used that for at least a decade, but I seem to remember that it was very good Anyway, that aside, for those who like minicom, Jeffrey Frey has done a Mac port which can be found at the bottome of his page here.