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

On 2007-09-14, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

I ran into problems with it often enough to give it up in favor
of Kermit. Two problems I can recall offhand were problems
where 1) I changed the serial configuration and the changes
didn't get made to the port. 2) When doing a ASCII file
transfer the end of the file is chopped off becasue the port is
closed before the tx fifo has drained. It's also impossible to
script.

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at bad Ronald Reagan movie ...
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