Description
As its name suggests, [picocom] is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it's "pico" instead of "mini"! It was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open terminal window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove useful in many other similar tasks. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped).
This project makes custom baudrate support default in all arches.
Custom baudrate support gives you the ability to set arbitrary
baudrate values (like 1234, or 42000, etc) to a serial port,
provided that the underlying driver can handle this.
Since release 2.0, picocom can be compiled with custom baudrate
support for some systems.
Since release 3.1 picocom is compiled with support enabled by default on some systems (like Linux, kernels > 2.6, on x86 and x86_64, modern Intel Macs, and some BSDs).
Installation Instructions
Instructions not filled in by author. Author knows what to do. Everybody else should avoid this repo.
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
| Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
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Fedora 40
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aarch64 (3)* | Fedora 40 (25 downloads) |
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Fedora 41
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aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (3)* | Fedora 41 (5 downloads) |
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Fedora rawhide
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aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (5)* | Fedora rawhide (19 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.