дружественная программа последовательной связи (friendly serial communication program)
USE
Minicom is window based. To pop-up a window with the function you
want, press Control-A (from now on, we will use C-A to mean
Control-A), and then the function key (a-z or A-Z). By pressing
C-A first and then 'z', a help screen comes up with a short
summary of all commands. This escape key can be altered when
minicom is configured (-s option or C-A O), but we'll stick to
Control-A for now.
For every menu the next keys can be used:
UP arrow-up or 'k'
DOWN arrow-down or 'j'
LEFT arrow-left or 'h'
RIGHT arrow-right or 'l'
CHOOSE Enter
CANCEL ESCape.
The screen is divided into two portions: the upper 24 lines are
the terminal-emulator screen. In this window, ANSI or VT100
escape sequences are interpreted. If there is a line left at the
bottom, a status line is placed there. If this is not possible
the status line will be showed every time you press C-A. On
terminals that have a special status line that will be used if
the termcap information is complete and the -k flag has been
given.
Possible commands are listed next, in alphabetical order.
C-A Pressing C-A a second time will just send a C-A to the
remote system. If you have changed your "escape character"
to something other than C-A, this works analogously for that
character.
A Toggle 'Add Linefeed' on/off. If it is on, a linefeed is
added before every carriage return displayed on the screen.
B Gives you a scroll back buffer. You can scroll up with u,
down with d, a page up with b, a page down with f, and if
you have them the arrow and page up/page down keys can also
be used. You can search for text in the buffer with s (case-
sensitive) or S (case-insensitive). N will find the next
occurrence of the string. c will enter citation mode. A
text cursor appears and you specify the start line by
hitting Enter key. Then scroll back mode will finish and the
contents with prefix '>' will be sent.
C Clears the screen.
D Dial a number, or go to the dialing directory.
E Toggle local echo on and off (if your version of minicom
supports it).
F A break signal is sent to the modem.
G Run script (Go). Runs a login script.
H Hangup.
I Toggle the type of escape sequence that the cursor keys send
between normal and applications mode. (See also the comment
about the status line below).
J Jump to a shell. On return, the whole screen will be
redrawn.
K Clears the screen, runs kermit and redraws the screen upon
return.
L Turn Capture file on off. If turned on, all output sent to
the screen will be captured in the file too.
M Sends the modem initialization string. If you are online and
the DCD line setting is on, you are asked for confirmation
before the modem is initialized.
N Toggle between timestamp modes to be added to the output.
Available are simple and extended time formats for each
line, a delta to the previous line, a time display each
second and no timestamps (the default).
O Configure minicom. Puts you in the configuration menu.
P Communication Parameters. Allows you to change the bps rate,
parity and number of bits.
Q Exit minicom without resetting the modem. If macros changed
and were not saved, you will have a chance to do so.
R Receive files. Choose from various protocols (external). If
you have the filename selection window and the prompt for
download directory enabled, you'll get a selection window
for choosing the directory for downloading. Otherwise the
download directory defined in the Filenames and paths menu
will be used.
S Send files. Choose the protocol like you do with the receive
command. If you don't have the filename selection window
enabled (in the File transfer protocols menu), you'll just
have to write the filename(s) in a dialog window. If you
have the selection window enabled, a window will pop up
showing the filenames in your upload directory. You can tag
and untag filenames by pressing spacebar, and move the
cursor up and down with the cursor keys or j/k. The selected
filenames are shown highlighted. Directory names are shown
[within brackets] and you can move up or down in the
directory tree by pressing the spacebar twice. Finally, send
the files by pressing ENTER or quit by pressing ESC.
T Choose Terminal emulation: Ansi(color) or vt100. You can
also change the backspace key here, turn the status line on
or off, and define delay (in milliseconds) after each
newline if you need that.
U Add carriage return to each received line.
W Toggle line-wrap on/off.
X Exit minicom, reset modem. If macros changed and were not
saved, you will have a chance to do so.
Y Paste a file. Reads a file and sends its contests just as if
it would be typed in.
Z Pop up the help screen.
