Minicom is a serial communication program. It is a Unix clone of the well-known MS-DOS Telix program. It has ANSI color, a dialing directory, dial-a-list, and a scripting language.
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Command line parameters for most common options and remote to local character set conversion has been added. This release also fixes program and build environment issues.