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comms/picocom,
Minimal dumb-terminal emulation program
Branch: CURRENT,
Version: 3.1,
Package name: picocom-3.1,
Maintainer: ryoonAs 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 serial communications program to allow access to all types
of devices that provide serial consoles. It could also prove useful
in many other similar tasks.
Master sites:
Filesize: 118.834 KB
Version history: (Expand)
- (2026-05-08) Updated to version: picocom-3.1
- (2025-10-24) Package has been reborn
- (2025-10-24) Package deleted from pkgsrc
- (2025-07-15) Package has been reborn
- (2025-07-15) Package deleted from pkgsrc
- (2017-11-23) Package has been reborn
CVS history: (Expand)
2026-05-08 04:52:30 by Pierre Pronchery | Files touched by this commit (3) |  |
Log message:
comms/picocom: update to version 3.1
Changes in version 3.1:
* Added the --raise-dtr and --raise-rts options, for symmetry with
--lower-dtr and --lower-rts (see manual page for details)
* Added custom baudrate support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD
(in additions to Linux and MacOS that were already supported)
* Better build support for custom baudrates. Now custom baudrate support
is enabled by default for some systems (for Linux, kernels > 2.6.0,
x86, and x86_64, for Intel Macs with macOS / OSX >= 10.4, and for some
BDSs).
You can always explicitly enable custom baudrate support for other
systems (see Makefile) and you can explicitly disable it, even for the
systems it is automatically enabled for (again, see Makefile).
To see if custom baudrate support is enabled in your build, run
picocom with the --help command-line option
Changes in version 3.0:
* Added the --logfile command line option. For more, see discussion in
issue #24, as well as the manual.
* Added the --lower-rts and --lower-dtr command-line options. These
options lower (reset) the respective modem control lines of the serial
port, as soon as picocom starts and the port is configured. For more
details, see the manual as well as this discussion.
* Added the --initstring (or -t) command line option. This option can be
used to send an initialization string to the serial port when picocom
starts.
* Added the --exit-after (or -x) command line option. Causes picocom to
exit if it becomes idle for the specified time.
* Added the -exit (or -X) command line option. Causes picocom to exit
immediately after opening and configuring the serial port.
* Added the --quiet (or -q) command line option. Suppress output from
picocom that was not explicitly requested by the user. Errors and
command responses are still printed.
* Added the --no-escape (or -n) command line option. Disables the escape
character. If given picocom will never enter command mode.
* Added the --hangup (or -u) comand line option. If given together with
--noreset, picocom will not reset the serial port to it's original
settings on exit, but it will clear the modem control lines (typically
DTR and RTS) to signal a modem hangup.
* Added the [C-g] command that toggles the state of the RTS modem
control line.
* Added the [C-w] command (write hex) that pompts the user for a string
of hexadecimal values to be converted to binary and sent to the port.
* Added "to hex" character mappings (???hex), which replace characters
with their hexadecimal representation. For more see issue #75, and the
INPUT, OUTPUT, AND ECHO MAPPING section in the picocom manual.
* Standard input can now be a non-tty (e.g a file or a pipe). Useful in
some occasions for doing trivial non-interactive stuff.
* Changed the way picocom handles reading zero-bytes from the standard
input. Now picocom waits for the output queue to be transmitted before
exiting, or waits to become idle before exiting (if the --exit-after
option is given). See the new section EXITING PICOCOM in the manual
for details.
* Picocom's serial port output queue is now dynamically growable. You
can still set an upper limit when compiling picocom, or allow it to
grow as much as your system's memory allows. Usueful, for example, for
doing huge copy-pastes. See issue #33.
* Custom baudrates are now also supported for OSX (not only Linux). See
PR #62.
* Fixed some minor backwards compatibility issues. Now you can use
command-line options compatible with 1.x. For more details see issue
#69, and PR #70.
* Now SIGINT, as well as SIGTERM, can kill picocom. May be useful when
the standard input is not a tty.
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| 2021-10-26 12:06:07 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (85) |
Log message:
comms: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums
All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
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| 2021-10-07 15:27:10 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (85) |
Log message:
comms: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
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| 2016-02-14 08:54:51 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (4) |
Log message:
Import picocom-2.1 as comms/picocom.
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 serial communications program to allow access to all types
of devices that provide serial consoles. It could also prove useful
in many other similar tasks.
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