NAME

       microcom — A minimalistic terminal program

SYNOPSIS

       microcom [-p devfile]  [-s speed]  [-t host:port]  [-c interface:rx_id:tx_id]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the microcom command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
       not have a manual page.

       microcom is a is a minimalistic terminal program for accessing  devices  (e.g.   switches)
       via  a  serial  connection.  It features connection via RS232 serial interfaces (including
       setting of transferrates) as well as in `telnetmode' as specified in rfc2217.

       The default escape character is crtl-. You may enter the  program  menu  with  the  escape
       character followed by c.  You may leave the program by the escape character followed by q.

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with
       two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included below.  For  a  complete  description,
       see the Info files.

       -h           --help
                 Show help.

       -p           --port
                 use the specified serial port device (default /dev/ttyS0).

       -s           --speed
                 use specified baudrate (default 115200).

       -t           --telnet
                 work in telnet (rfc2217) mode.

       -c           --can
                 work in CAN mode (default: (can0:200:200))

       -d           --debug
                 turn on debug mode.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Alexander Reichle-Schmehl tolimar@debian.org for the
       Debian system (and may be used by others).  Permission  is  granted  to  copy,  distribute
       and/or  modify  this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2
       any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

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