[Eug-lug] Minicom configuration

[Allen Brown]

Wow!  This is really going the extra mile.  Thank you!

But I still don't understand why they didn't do it.  After all,
you were able...

[I won't get a chance to really look at this until Friday.]
-- 
Allen Brown
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         allen_brown at agilent.com	            abrown at peak.org
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   they would not reach a conclusion. ---George Bernard Shaw


Mike Cherba wrote:
> Allen,
> I poked about a bit in minicom and discovered why the authors didn't put
> command line options or environment variables in for auto linewrap and
> local echo.  These variables must be initialized AFTER the terminal
> emulation is completed.  The original minicom program was not
> architected to easily allow this.  So, I hacked together an updated
> version.  I'm sending that version to you seperately from this email
> because I didn't want to spam it to the whole list.  If other people
> want it I assume they'll tell me. 
> 
> I've not fixed the architecture, but I grafted in two new options. 
> --echo or -e and --autolinefeed or -b.  They have of course been added
> to the help, but not to the manpage.  If you use these options you
> should see messages in the top of the window when minicom starts.  You
> can just add the options to the MINICOM environment variable on machines
> you need it on. 
> 		-Mike
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:49, Allen Brown wrote:
> 
>>That's not the same.  AutoLF causes minicom to linefeed the
>>display everytime it receives a CR.  This device doesn't
>>send CR-LF.  It just sends CR.  So every line is displayed
>>over the top of the next until I type C-A a.