Serial Port Terminal Program

[NoOp]

On 02/27/2009 05:12 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:34 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> On 02/27/2009 12:46 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> > Actually I have a simple DOS one that works in DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows
>> > 95, and Windows 98 without problems. It is called MAXTERM and it came
>> > with the my 8051 development kit from New Micros about 13 years ago.
>> > http://www.newmicros.com
>> > 
>> > I have to get a DOS or Windows 98 machine going again.
>> > 
>> > Kip
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get install dosemu
>> 
>> $ sudo dosemu
>> 
>> cd to your maxterm and run it - I just did and it works.
>> 
>> Note: you must use sudo w/dosemu otherwise you'll end up with:
>> ~$ dosemu
>> LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument
>> Segmentation fault
>> 
> 
> I got dosemu loaded, and I put MAXTERM in a directory so I could get to
> it from the D: drive.
> 
> I ran it and I could not get any data. I was putting one character per
> second at 19200 baud on both serial ports. In Ubuntu they
> are  /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 and I can see it with GtkTerm.
> 
> MAXTERM lets me choose COM1: COM2: COM3: or COM4 none of them are seeing
> the data.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a dosemu mapping I am missing somewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kip
> 

I didn't try that far (MAXTERM)... but:
<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bdosemu+%2Bcom1>
yields some promising info.