Minicom is a
text-basedUsually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics. This does not mean that text-based applications do not have graphics, just that the graphics are secondary to the...
modemModem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...
control and terminal emulation program for
Unix-likeA Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular
MS-DOSMS-DOS is an operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the main operating system for personal computers during the 1980s. It was preceded by M-DOS , designed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1979...
program
TelixTelix is a telecommunications program originally written for DOS by Colin Sampaleanu and released in 1986. More recent versions were distributed by deltaComm Development, including a version for Windows....
. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and
VT100VT100 is a video terminal which was made by Digital Equipment Corporation . It became the de facto standard used by terminal emulators....
emulationAn emulator in computer sciences duplicates the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like the first system...
, an (external)
scripting languageA scripting language, script language or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more software applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, which is usually written in a different language, and are often created or at least modified...
, and other features. Minicom is a menu-driven communications program. It also has an auto
zmodemZMODEM is a file transfer protocol developed by Chuck Forsberg in 1986, in a project funded by Telenet in order to improve file transfers on their X.25 network...
download.
A common use for minicom is when setting up a remote serial console, perhaps as a last resort to access a computer if the
LANLän are the Swedish and lääni Finnish language terms, respectively, for the administrative divisions used in Sweden and Finland.They are also sometimes used in other countries, especially as a translation of the Russian word oblast...
is down.
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Minicom is a
text-basedUsually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics. This does not mean that text-based applications do not have graphics, just that the graphics are secondary to the...
modemModem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...
control and terminal emulation program for
Unix-likeA Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular
MS-DOSMS-DOS is an operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the main operating system for personal computers during the 1980s. It was preceded by M-DOS , designed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1979...
program
TelixTelix is a telecommunications program originally written for DOS by Colin Sampaleanu and released in 1986. More recent versions were distributed by deltaComm Development, including a version for Windows....
. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and
VT100VT100 is a video terminal which was made by Digital Equipment Corporation . It became the de facto standard used by terminal emulators....
emulationAn emulator in computer sciences duplicates the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like the first system...
, an (external)
scripting languageA scripting language, script language or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more software applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, which is usually written in a different language, and are often created or at least modified...
, and other features. Minicom is a menu-driven communications program. It also has an auto
zmodemZMODEM is a file transfer protocol developed by Chuck Forsberg in 1986, in a project funded by Telenet in order to improve file transfers on their X.25 network...
download.
A common use for minicom is when setting up a remote serial console, perhaps as a last resort to access a computer if the
LANLän are the Swedish and lääni Finnish language terms, respectively, for the administrative divisions used in Sweden and Finland.They are also sometimes used in other countries, especially as a translation of the Russian word oblast...
is down. This can be done using nothing more than an old
386The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386, was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors and were used as the central processing unit of many personal computers and workstations...
laptop with a minicom floppy distro such as Pitux or Serial Terminal Linux.
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