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Конфигурация (Configuration)

By pressing C-A O you will be thrown into the setup menu.

Filenames and paths This menu defines your default directories. A - Download directory where the downloaded files go to. B - Upload directory where the uploaded files are read from. C - Script directory Where you keep your login scripts. D - Script program Which program to use as the script interpreter. Defaults to the program "runscript", but if you want to use something else (eg, /bin/sh or "expect") it is possible. Stdin and stdout are connected to the modem, stderr to the screen. If the path is relative (ie, does not start with a slash) then it's relative to your home directory, except for the script interpreter. E - Kermit program Where to find the executable for kermit, and it's options. Some simple macro's can be used on the command line: '%l' is expanded to the complete filename of the dial out- device, '%f' is expanded to the serial port file descriptor and '%b' is expanded to the current serial port speed. F - Logging options Options to configure the logfile writing.

A - File name Here you can enter the name of the logfile. The file will be written in your home directory, and the default value is "minicom.log". If you blank the name, all logging is turned off.

B - Log connects and hangups This option defines whether or not the logfile is written when the remote end answers the call or hangs up. Or when you give the hangup command yourself or leave minicom without hangup while online.

C - Log file transfers Do you want log entries of receiving and sending files. The 'log' command in the scripts is not affected by logging options B and C. It is always executed, if you just have the name of the log file defined.

File Transfer Protocols Protocols defined here will show up when C-A s/r is pressed. "Name" in the beginning of the line is the name that will show up in the menu. "Program" is the path to the protocol. "Name" after that defines if the program needs an argument, e.g. a file to be transmitted. U/D defines if this entry should show up in the upload or the download menu. Fullscr defines if the program should run full screen, or that minicom will only show it's stderr in a window. IO-Red defines if minicom should attach the program's standard in and output to the modem port or not. "Multi" tells the filename selection window whether or not the protocol can send multiple files with one command. It has no effect on download protocols, and it is also ignored with upload protocols if you don't use the filename selection window. The old sz and rz are not full screen, and have IO-Red set. However, there are curses based versions of at least rz that do not want their stdin and stdout redirected, and run full screen. All file transfer protocols are run with the UID of the user, and not with UID=root. '%l', '%f' and '%b' can be used on the command line as with kermit. Within this menu you can also define if you want to use the filename selection window when prompted for files to upload, and if you like to be prompted for the download directory every time the automatic download is started. If you leave the download directory prompt disabled, the download directory defined in the file and directory menu is used.

Serial port setup A - Serial device /dev/tty1 or /dev/ttyS1 for most people. /dev/cua<n> is still possible under GNU/Linux, but no longer recommended as these devices are obsolete and many systems with kernel 2.2.x or newer don't have them. Use /dev/ttyS<n> instead. You may also have /dev/modem as a symlink to the real device. If you have modems connected to two or more serial ports, you may specify all of them here in a list separated by space, comma or semicolon. When Minicom starts, it checks the list until it finds an available modem and uses that one. (However, you can't specify different init strings to them... at least not yet.) To use a UNIX socket for communication the device name must be prefixed with "unix#" following by the full path and the filename of the socket. Minicom will then try to connect to this socket as a client. As long as it cannot connect to the socket it stays 'offline'. As soon as the connection establishes, minicom goes 'online'. If the server closes the socket, minicom switches to 'offline' again. B - Lock file location On most systems This should be /usr/spool/uucp. GNU/Linux systems use /var/lock. If this directory does not exist, minicom will not attempt to use lockfiles. C - Callin program If you have a uugetty or something on your serial port, it could be that you want a program to be run to switch the modem cq. port into dialin/dialout mode. This is the program to get into dialin mode. D - Callout program And this to get into dialout mode. E - Bps/Par/Bits Default parameters at startup.

If one of the entries is left blank, it will not be used. So if you don't care about locking, and don't have a getty running on your modemline, entries B - D should be left blank.

Modem and Dialing Here, the parameters for your modem are defined. I will not explain this further because the defaults are for generic Hayes modems, and should work always. This file is not a Hayes tutorial :-) The only things worth noticing are that control characters can be sent by prefixing them with a '^', in which '^^' means '^' itself, and the '\' character must also be doubled as '\\', because backslash is used specially in the macro definitions. Some options however, don't have much to do with the modem but more with the behaviour of minicom itself: M - Dial time The number of seconds before minicom times out if no connection is established. N - Delay before redial Minicom will redial if no connection was made, but it first waits some time. O - Number of tries Maximum number of times that minicom attempts to dial. P - Drop DTR time If you set this to 0, minicom hangs up by sending a Hayes- type hangup sequence. If you specify a non-zero value, the hangup will be done by dropping the DTR line. The value tells in seconds how long DTR will be kept down. Q - Auto bps detect If this is on, minicom tries to match the dialed party's speed. With most modern modems this is NOT desirable, since the modem buffers the data and converts the speed. R - Modem has DCD line If your modem, and your O/S both support the DCD line (that goes 'high' when a connection is made) minicom will use it. When you have this option on, minicom will also NOT start dialing while you are already online. S - Status line shows DTE speed / line speed You can toggle the status line to show either the DTE speed (the speed which minicom uses to communicate with your modem) or the line speed (the speed that your modem uses on the line to communicate with the other modem). Notice that the line speed may change during the connection, but you will still only see the initial speed that the modems started the connection with. This is because the modem doesn't tell the program if the speed is changed. Also, to see the line speed, you need to have the modem set to show it in the connect string. Otherwise you will only see 0 as the line speed. T - Multi-line untag You can toggle the feature to untag entries from the dialing directory when a connection is established to a multi-line BBS. All the tagged entries that have the same name are untagged.

Note that a special exception is made for this menu: every user can change all parameters here, but some of them will not be saved.

Screen and keyboard A - Command key is the 'Hot Key' that brings you into command mode. If this is set to 'ALT' or 'meta key', you can directly call commands by alt-key instead of HotKey-key. B - Backspace key sends There still are some systems that want a VT100 to send DEL instead of BS. With this option you can enable that stupidity. (Eh, it's even on by default...) C - Status line is Enabled or disabled. Some slow terminals (for example, X- terminals) cause the status line to jump "up and down" when scrolling, so you can turn it off if desired. It will still be shown in command-mode. D - Alarm sound If turned on, minicom will sound an alarm (on the console only) after a successful connection and when up/downloading is complete. E - Foreground Color (menu) indicates the foreground color to use for all the configuration windows in minicom. F - Background Color (menu) indicates the background color to use for all the configuration windows in minicom. Note that minicom will not allow you to set foreground and background colors to the same value. G - Foreground Color (term) indicates the foreground color to use in the terminal window. H - Background Color (term) indicates the background color to use in the terminal window. Note that minicom will not allow you to set foreground and background colors to the same value. I - Foreground Color (stat) indicates the foreground color to use in for the status bar. J - Background Color (stat) indicates the color to use in for the status bar. Note that minicom will allow you to set the status bar's foreground and background colors to the same value. This will effectively make the status bar invisible but if these are your intentions, please see the option K - History buffer size The number of lines to keep in the history buffer (for backscrolling). L - Macros file is the full path to the file that holds macros. Macros allow you to define a string to be sent when you press a certain key. In minicom, you may define F1 through F12 to send up to 256 characters [this is set at compile time]. The filename you specify is verified as soon as you hit ENTER. If you do not have permissions to create the specified file, an error message will so indicate and you will be forced to re-edit the filename. If you are permitted to create the file, minicom checks to see if it already exists. If so, it assumes it's a macro file and reads it in. If it isn't, well, it's your problem :-) If the file does not exist, the filename is accepted. M - Edit Macros opens up a new window which allows you to edit the F1 through F12 macros. N - Macros enabled - Yes or No. If macros are disabled, the F1-F12 keys will just send the VT100/VT220 function key escape sequences. O - Character conversion The active conversion table filename is shown here. If you can see no name, no conversion is active. Pressing O, you will see the conversion table edit menu.

Edit Macros Here, the macros for F1 through F12 are defined. The bottom of the window shows a legend of character combinations that have special meaning. They allow you to enter special control characters with plain text by prefixing them with a '^', in which '^^' means '^' itself. You can send a 1 second delay with the '^~' code. This is useful when you are trying to login after ftp'ing or telnet'ing somewhere. You can also include your current username and password from the phone directory in the macros with '\u' and '\p', respectively. If you need the backslash character in the macro, write it doubled as '\\'. To edit a macro, press the shown number or letter and you will be moved to the end of the macro. When editing the line, you may use the left & right arrows, Home & End keys, Delete & BackSpace, and ESC and RETURN. ESC cancels any changes made while ENTER accepts the changes.

Character conversion Here you can edit the character conversion table. If you are not an American, you know that in many languages there are characters that are not included in the ASCII character set, and in the old times they may have replaced some less important characters in ASCII and now they are often represented with character codes above 127. AND there are various different ways to represent them. This is where you may edit conversion tables for systems that use a character set different from the one on your computer.

A - Load table You probably guessed it. This command loads a table from the disk. You are asked a file name for the table. Predefined tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and .mcsf7 should be included with the program. Table .mciso does no conversion, .mcpc8 is to be used for connections with systems that use the 8-bit pc character set, and .mcsf7 is for compatibility with the systems that uses the good old 7-bit coding to replace the characters {|}[]\ with the diacritical characters used in Finnish and Swedish.

B - Save table This one saves the active table on the filename you specify.

C - edit char This is where you can make your own modifications to the existing table. First you are asked the character value (in decimal) whose conversion you want to change. Next you'll say which character you want to see on your screen when that character comes from the outside world. And then you'll be asked what you want to be sent out when you enter that character from your keyboard.

D - next screen

E - prev screen Yeah, you probably noticed that this screen shows you what kind of conversions are active. The screen just is (usually) too small to show the whole table at once in an easy-to-understand format. This is how you can scroll the table left and right.

F - convert capture Toggles whether or not the character conversion table is used when writing the capture file.

Save setup as dfl Save the parameters as the default for the next time the program is started. Instead of dfl, any other parameter name may appear, depending on which one was used when the program was started.

Save setup as.. Save the parameters under a special name. Whenever Minicom is started with this name as an argument, it will use these parameters. This option is of course privileged to root.

Exit Escape from this menu without saving. This can also be done with ESC.

Exit from minicom Only root will see this menu entry, if he/she started minicom with the '-s' option. This way, it is possible to change the configuration without actually running minicom.