picocom works good so rethink the need for neocon

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Fri Nov 21 05:07:59 CET 2008


jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> I noted on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NeoCon that
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Picocom is an alternative... indeed it
> works real good for my thirty second trial, so perhaps "rethink the
> need for neocon".

The main feature of neocon is actually that you can give it a list
of devices and it will pick one that works, e.g.,

# neocon /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2}

If you don't like the one it picked, you can switch to the next with
~n

This is useful for dynamically allocated devices, such as ttyUSBn
or ttyACMn. You can of course also use them with other communication
programs - there's certainly no shortage of them - but then you have
to handle reconnects manually.

- Werner



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