[lug] Finding a File

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Of course you are right - it is minicom -s.  I don't know what I was thinking
when I typed the my option...

Ferdinand

--On Friday, May 07, 2004 10:35:35 AM +0200 rm at fabula.de wrote:

> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:17:42PM -0600, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
>> Just start it with minicom -f (man minicom will tell you more).  This will
>> create a config file for you.  You can then use the Ctrl-A Z key combination
>> to go through the menus.
> 
> 
> Hmmm, shouldn't this be 'minicom -s' ? 
> 
>   hth Ralf Mattes
> 
> 
>> Ferdinand
>> 
>> --On Thursday, May 06, 2004 06:42:42 PM -0600 Charlie Rose <ros5e at ISAaC.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > At 2004-05-06:17:20, you wrote:
>> >> On looking at rpmfind, it appears that there is an rpm package named
>> >> minicom.  It sounds as if it may not be installed.  To check, run:
>> >> 
>> >> rpm -q minicom
>> >> 
>> >> If it is installed, you can do
>> >> 
>> >> rpm -ql minicom
>> >> 
>> >> to see which files are included in the package.
>> >> 
>> >> If it isn't installed, use the media that you used to install Mandrake
>> >> and install the rpm from there.
>> > 
>> > Many thanks, Hugh! I did what you suggested, found that it wasn't
>> > installed, and then figured out how to get it installed. This went
>> > swimmingly, but when I ran it, it came back and told me, "There is no
>> > global configuration file /etc/minirc.dfl". It then told me to ask my
>> > SysAdm to create one for me. This will be tough because *I'm* the SysAdm,
>> > and I don't know Jack about what I'm doing. Here's hoping I can find some
>> > documentation on minicom somewhere.
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