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  From: Branko Bratkovic <branko@senet.com.au>
  To  : Prashanth N V <nv@sasi.com>
  Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:39:19 +0930 (CST)

Re: minicom options

>I use minicom for serial communication ,since i use both the serial ports
>to communication with two diff switches  i will have to evertime change
>ports settings in /etc/minirc.dfl,do we have an option where in we can 
>specify option to use port /dev/ttyS1 or ttyS0 with diff configuration
>files,if so how do i do that,
>
>Regds,
>Prashanth N V.

Deep inside the man page for minicom you will find reference to
the "configuration" argument which is provided on the command
line.  But watch out for the trap!  When I first used minicom, I
saw the syntax at the top of the man page and assumed that the
configuration value could be just any old file.  After about half
a day of editing a local file with out success, I re-read the 
instructions and discovered that the program was looking for:

	/etc/minirc.configuration
where the "configuration" part of the name is at your
option.

I used minirc.ttyS1 and minirc.dfl so if I started minicom without
an option it went to the default, ie "dfl" which you know about, but
if I wanted to communicate over the RS232 line then I'd specify ttyS1.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Branko Bratkovic
branko@senet.com.au

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