Terminal Emulation

The need for terminal emulation apps is reappearing, in order to access some consumer IT devices. Suitable apps include:

Minicom

• initial invocation is:

minicom

• from which settings can be configured and saved to a file <mydevice>, for later invocation as:

minicom mydevice

Screen

• appears to have better compatibility with modern devices than the older Minicom app
• typical invocation is:

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200