Re: Serial (RS232) communication - failing to detect stop bit

David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
arka.n.roy wrote:
[...]
However on PC-2 when I used the Linux (Xandros) partition on PC-2, in
test cases 3 and 4 and 5, I used Minicom.

Minicom is, unfortunately, also crap... it's far too complicated, far too slow
(there are hard-coded pauses in the menu system, for heavens' sake!) and
requires a lot of tedious reconfiguration to stop is spewing garbage down the
serial line on startup and shutdown.

Just to put this somewhat into perspective: The minicom default
configuration is intended for an actual modem and 'a lot of tedious
reconfiguration' amounts to pressing Ctrl-a 0, selecting 'Modem and
dialing' from the menu popping up, deleting the init and reset
strings and saving the modifed configuration afterwards. Once, of
course.

I happen to use it regularly to connect to the serial console of the
devices I do 'software' for and have no real reason to complain about
it.
.

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