microcom

Microcom is a minicom-like serial terminal emulator with scripting support. The requirement for this program was to be small enough to fit on a floppy-based Linux distribution - such as the one from Linux Router Project.
The original project and its source code was on http://microcom.port5.com/m102.tar.gz (no more available) and found only at http://sources.buildroot.net. Its content is available under label 1.02.

Features:

• Add/strip line feeds, local echo control
• Hardware/software flow control support
• 8 bit, one stop, no parity
• Support for standard speeds form 1200 to 460800 bps
• Default UNIX tty emulation
• BASIC like script language support
• Distribution: source code, LINUX executable, LRP based floppy
• Automatic modem detection

Please have a look in the provided index.html file for details.

Building:

• To build this program using autotools enter the following commands: ./configure && make For details please refer to autotools documentation and have a look to the configure script's options (./configure --help).

• To build this program without using the autotools just enter the following commands: touch config.h && make -f Makefile.old