NAME
microcom — A minimalistic terminal program
SYNOPSIS
microcom [-p devfile] [-s speed] [-t host:port]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the microcom command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
microcom is a is a minimalistic terminal program for accessing devices
(e.g. switches) via a serial connection. It features connection via
RS232 serial interfaces (including setting of transferrates) as well as
in ‘telnetmode’ as specified in rfc2217.
The default escape character is crtl-. You may enter the programm menu
with the escape character followed by c. You may leave the program by
the escape character followed by q.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-h --help
Show help.
-p --port
use the specified serial port device (default /dev/ttyS0).
-s --speed
use specified baudrate (default 115200).
-t --telnet
work in telnet (rfc2217) mode.
-d --debug
turn on debug mode.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
tolimar@debian.org for the Debian system (and may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.