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picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in
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principle, very much like minicom, only it's pico instead of mini!
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Picocom was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem
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configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite
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well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention
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in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open
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terminal window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove
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useful in many other similar tasks.
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Picocom is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is
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minimal (less than 20K, when stripped).
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Apart from being a handy little tool, the picocom source
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distribution includes a simple, easy to use, and thoroughly documented
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terminal-management library, which could serve other projects as well.
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This library hides the termios(3) calls, and provides a less complex
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and safer (though certainly less feature-rich) interface.
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Picocom runs on Linux, and with minor modifications it could run on any
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Unix system with the termios(3) library.
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