On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:07:37PM +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm building some hardware that spits out debug info on a regular
basis, and I figured it'd be useful to have this data graphed
on-screen. Making it keep track of the last "N" samples and draw
them wouldn't be hard, except adding an LCD display is out of the
question (takes up too many I/O pins).
On the other hand, I have a perfectly good serial port which runs at
a decent rate of speed (115200 baud), and Xterm can emulate a
Tektronix 4014 vector terminal. Perfect... except I can't see an
easy way to tie Xterm to a serial port instead of having it run an
application.
There's nothing in the manpage (admittedly I haven't read it all,
just grepped it for a few obvious terms) and 'apropos' isn't finding
anything useful. I've been told that tip(1) on BSD will do what I
want, I just can't find anything similar on Linux...
Hmm, wouldn't running kermit (connected to the serial port) inside the
xterm do the trick?
Kind regards,
Alex.
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