Easy serial communication on osx and linux

Most people don’t think OSX comes with a program to interact with serial devices, but they’re wrong! Someone showed me this brilliant tip a few days ago:

screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600

It’s useful on Linux too, since minicom can be quite a pain to set up. And by the way, this cheap AirLink101 AC-USBS Serial Adapter from Fry’s works perfectly in both operating systems.

This entry was written by FireRabbit, posted on August 5, 2006 at 8:04 pm, filed under Computers & Technology, Linux, OSX. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Christian Hergert
    Posted August 5, 2006 at 9:00 pm | Permalink

    Holy crap that’s awesome.

  2. Kurt Miller
    Posted September 16, 2006 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    I don’t currently have a /dev/tty.usbserial and get a no such file error msg when trying the above. I assume this file is really symlink to somewhere but I don’t where. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

  3. Kurt Miller
    Posted September 16, 2006 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

    I should have mentioned that I’m running OSX 10.4.7 on G4 iBook.

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