Minicom
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- terminal emulator
- Official website
- salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom
- Image
- Minicom menu pl.jpeg
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- programmed in
- Q15777
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- operating system
- Linux
- software version identifier
- 2.11
- source code repository URL
- salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom
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thumb|Minicom running a Windows Server 2003 EMS prompt
Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulator program for Unix-like operating systems including Cygwin, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled somewhat after the popular MS-DOS program Telix but is open source. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features. Minicom is a menu-driven communications program. It also has an auto ZMODEM download. It now comes packaged in most major Linux distribution repositories such as Debian, Ubuntu and Arch Linux.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minicom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.