=== README === Quick instructions for installing: 1. Change to the minicom-1.82/src directory (where minicom-1.82 should be the directory where this file was unpacked) 2. make 3. make install (this should be done as root, or if you are logged in as somebody else, do "su -c 'make install'") 4. as root, do 'minicom -s' to enter the configuration mode. Check all the settings, change what should be changed on your system, and choose 'Save setup as dfl' from the configuration menu to save the changed settings as system defaults. Edit /etc/minicom.users, adding the usernames which should be allowed to use minicom. Now you should have minicom comiled, installed and ready to use. For more information, have a look at the next files: Install - How to install Minicom doc/Locales - Information of the string localization feature doc/Macros - Notes on color & macro additions doc/ChangeLog - Does not necessarily interest you if you are a new user. If you have used older versions of minicom, here you can see what has changed lately. The newest things are at the end of the file. doc/Porting - How to port minicom to new architectures. In the future, this can probably be done more easily with the autoconf facility. man/minicom.1 - Manual for 'minicom' itself. man/runscript.1 - Manual page for the "runscript" script interpreter. src/Makefile - Configurable Makefile Directories: demos/ - Demo's for the 'runscript' program. src/ - Minicom source src/po - Text strings for national languages terminfo/ - Terminfo entry for minicom on Linux console termcap/ - New termcap entries (better!) doc/ - Some documentation. linux/ - Binaries for the utilities I don't have sources for tables/ - Predefined character conversion tables Www: For information about the newest version, what has changed since the previous version, and sometimes possibly the newest beta version (if there is one available), look at http://www.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html If you want to use minicom with network-modem software, have a look at "modem-0.1b", sunsite:/pub/Linux/apps/comm/modem-0.1b.tar.gz by Merijn de Jonge . miquels@cistron.nl walker@clinet.fi