naked serial port / modem access

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:08:52PM -0400, Pavel Zaitsev wrote:
> I am wondering if there is most naked way to access a serial port without any sort of software, or minimal POSIX compliant software. And variation of shell script commands are acceptable. I found screen to work for accessing modem, as if it is your terminal. But if you have something simpler, that would be great.

cat ought to work, assuming you set the port settings with stty first to
something that makes sense.  Not the most pleasant or flexible way to do
it though.

I tend to prefer using minicom for serial access.

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