Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features. Minicom is a menu-driven communications program. It also has an auto zmodem download.
You can install minicom on Snow Leopard following these instructions:
- First of all you need to install Darwin Ports, to install you can follow the instructions at this page: Darwin Ports
- Then you can go on and install minicom, the following procedure will install at least the following packets:
perl5.8
p5-locale-gettext
help2man
m4
autoconf
automake
libtool
dbus
glib2
pcre-8.10
slang2
z-5.0.0
- Open a terminal window and type the following command:
peppo:~ $ sudo port install minicom
Password:
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
---> Computing dependencies for minicom
---> Dependencies to be installed: kermit lrzsz
---> Fetching kermit
---> Attempting to fetch cku211.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/kermit
---> Verifying checksum(s) for kermit
---> Extracting kermit
---> Applying patches to kermit
---> Configuring kermit
---> Building kermit
---> Staging kermit into destroot
---> Installing kermit @8.0.211_0
---> Activating kermit @8.0.211_0
---> Cleaning kermit
---> Fetching lrzsz
---> Attempting to fetch lrzsz-0.12.20.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/lrzsz
---> Verifying checksum(s) for lrzsz
---> Extracting lrzsz
---> Applying patches to lrzsz
---> Configuring lrzsz
---> Building lrzsz
---> Staging lrzsz into destroot
---> Installing lrzsz @0.12.20_1
---> Activating lrzsz @0.12.20_1
---> Cleaning lrzsz
---> Fetching minicom
---> Attempting to fetch minicom-2.4.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/minicom
---> Verifying checksum(s) for minicom
---> Extracting minicom
---> Configuring minicom
---> Building minicom
---> Staging minicom into destroot
---> Installing minicom @2.4_0
---> Activating minicom @2.4_0
---> Cleaning minicom
- Now try to run minicom
peppo:~ $ minicom
- You should receive the following error:
minicom: there is no global configuration file /opt/local/etc/minirc.dfl
Ask your sysadmin to create one (with minicom -s).
- So, run minicom as sudo
peppo:~ $ sudo -s
bash-3.2# minicom -s
- You should receive this strange error:
minicom: there is no global configuration file /opt/local/etc/minirc.dfl
Ask your sysadmin to create one (with minicom -s).
- login as sudo
peppo:~ $ sudo -s
- Create an empty configuration file
bash-3.2# touch /opt/local/etc/minirc.dfl
- Now run minicom with -s option and configure minicom
bash-3.2# minicom -s
- You should see something like the following: