have the same name are untagged..PD 1.PP.RE.RS 0.5i.B Note that a special exception is made for this menu: every user.B can change all parameters here, but some of them will not be saved..RE.PP.B "Screen and keyboard".RS 0.25i.PD 0.TP 0.5i.B A - Command key isthe 'Hot Key' that brings you into command mode. If this is setto 'ALT' or 'meta key', you can directly call commandsby alt-key instead of HotKey-key..TP 0.5i.B B - Backspace key sendsThere still are some systems that want a VT100 to send DEL instead ofBS. With this option you can enable that stupidity.  (Eh, it's even onby default...).TP 0.5i.B C - Status line isEnabled or disabled. Some slow terminals (for example, X-terminals)cause the status line to jump "up and down" when scrolling, so you canturn it off if desired. It will still be shown in command-mode..TP 0.5i.B D - Alarm soundIf turned on, minicom will sound an alarm (on the console only) aftera succesfull connection and when up/downloading is complete..TP 0.5i.B E - Foreground Color (menu)indicates the foreground color to use for all the configuration windows in minicom..TP 0.5i.B F - Background Color (menu)indicates the background color to use for all the configuration windows in minicom. Note that minicom will not allow you to set forground and background colors to the same value..TP 0.5i.B G - Foreground Color (term)indicates the foreground color to use in the terminal window..TP 0.5i.B H - Background Color (term)indicates the background color to use in the terminal window. Note that minicom will not allow you to set forground and background colors to the same value..TP 0.5i.B I - Foreground Color (stat)indicates the foreground color to use in for the status bar..TP 0.5i.B J - Background Color (stat)indicates the color to use in for thestatus bar. Note that minicom will allow you to set the status bar'sforground and background colors to the same value. This will effectivelymake the status bar invisible but if these are your intensions, pleasesee the option.TP 0.5i.B K - History buffer sizeThe number of lines to keep in the history buffer (for backscrolling)..TP 0.5i.B L - Macros fileis the full path to the file that holdsmacros. Macros allow you to define a string to be sent when you pressa certain key. In minicom, you may define F1 through F10 to sendup to 256 characters [this is set at compile time]. The filename youspecify is verified as soon as you hit ENTER. If you do not have permissionsto create the specified file, an error message will so indicate and youwill be forced to re-edit the filename. If you are permitted to createthe file, minicom checks to see if it already exists. If so, it assumesit's a macro file and reads it in. If it isn't, well, it's your problem :-)If the file does not exist, the filename is accepted..TP 0.5i.B M - Edit Macrosopens up a new window which allows you to edit the F1 through F10 macros. .TP 0.5i.B N - Macros enabled- Yes or No. If macros are disabled, the F1-F10keys will just send the VT100/VT220 function key escape sequences..TP 0.5i.B O - Character conversionThe active conversion table filename is shown here. If you can see noname, no conversion is active. Pressing O, you will see the conversion table edit menu..RS 0.5i.PD 1.TP 0.25i.B "Edit Macros"Here, the macros for F1 through F10 are defined. The bottom of thewindow shows a legend of character combinations that have special meaning.They allow you to enter special control characters with plain text byprefixing them with a '^', in which '^^' means '^' itself. You cansend a 1 second delay with the '^~' code. This is useful when you aretrying to login after ftp'ing or telnet'ing somewhere. You can also include your current username and password from the phone directory in the macros with '\\u' and '\\p', respectively. If you needthe backslash character in the macro, write it doubled as '\\\\'.To edit a macro, press the number (or letter for F10) and you will be moved to the end of the macro. When editing the line, you may use the left & right arrows, Home & End keys, Delete & BackSpace, and ESC and RETURN.  ESC cancels any changes made while ENTER accepts the changes..PD 1.TP 0.25i.B "Character conversion"Here you can edit the character conversion table. If you are not anAmerican, you know that in many languages there are characters that arenot included in the ASCII character set, and in the old times they mayhave replaced some less important characters in ASCII and now they areoften represented with character codes above 127. AND there are variousdifferent ways to represent them. This is where you may edit conversiontables for systems that use a character set different from the one on yourcomputer..TP 0.5i.B A - Load tableYou probably guessed it. This command loads a table from the disk.You are asked a file name for the table.Predefined tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and .mcsf7 should be included with theprogram. Table .mciso does no conversion, .mcpc8 is to be used for connections with systems that use the 8-bit pc character set, and .mcsf7is for compatibility with the systems that uses the good old 7-bit codingto replace the characters {|}[]\\ with the diacritical characters used inFinnish and Swedish..TP 0.5i.B B - Save tableThis one saves the active table on the filename you specify..TP 0.5i.B C - edit charThis is where you can make your own modifications to the existing table.First you are asked the character value (in decimal) whose conversion youwant to change. Next you'll say which character you want to see on your screen when that character comes from the outside world. And then you'llbe asked what you want to be sent out when you enter that character fromyour keyboard..TP 0.5i.B D - next screen.TP 0.5i.B E - prev screenYeah, you probably noticed that this screen shows you what kind ofconversions are active. The screen just is (usually) too small to showthe whole table at once in an easy-to-understand format. This is how you canscroll the table left and right..TP 0.5i.B F - convert captureToggles whether or not the character conversion table is used whenwriting the capture file..RE.RE.PD 1.TP 0.25i.B "Save setup as dfl"Save the parameters as the default for the next time the program isstarted. Instead of dfl, any other parameter name may appear, dependingon which one was used when the program was started..TP 0.25i.B "Save setup as.."Save the parameters under a special name. Whenever Minicom is startedwith this name as an argument, it will use these parameters. Thisoption is of course priviliged to root..TP 0.25i.B "Exit"Escape from this menu without saving.  This can also be done with ESC..TP 0.25i.B "Exit from minicom"Only root will see this menu entry, if he/she started minicom with the '-s'option. This way, it is possible to change the configuration withoutactually running minicom..PD 1.SH "STATUS LINE"The status line has several indicators, that speak for themselves.The mysterious APP or NOR indicator probably needs explanation. TheVT100 cursor keys can be in two modes: applications mode and cursormode. This is controlled by an escape sequence. If you find thatthe cursor keys do not work in, say, vi when you're logged in usingminicom then you can see with this indicator whether the cursor keysare in applications or cursor mode. You can toggle the two with theC-A I key. If the cursor keys then work, it's probably an error inthe remote system's termcap initialization strings (is)..PD 1.SH "LOCALES"Minicom has now support for local languages. This means you can change mostof the English messages and other strings to another language by settingthe environment variable LANG. On June 1999 the supported languagesare Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Japanese, French, Polish and Korean. Turkish is under construction..PD 1.SH "SECURITY ISSUES"Since Minicom is run setuid root on some computers, you probably want to restrict access to it. This is possible by using a configuration file in the same directory as the default files, called "minicom.users". The syntax of this file is as following:.PP.RS 0.5i<username> <configuration> [configuration...].RE.PPTo allow user 'miquels' to use the default configuration, enter the following line into "minicom.users":.PP.RS 0.5imiquels dfl.RE.PPIf you want users to be able to use more than the defaultconfigurations, just add the names of those configurations behind theuser name. If no configuration is given behind the username, minicomassumes that the user has access to all configurations..PD 1.SH MISCIf minicom is hung, kill it with SIGTERM . (This means kill -15, orsince sigterm is default, just plain "kill <minicompid>". This willcause a graceful exit of minicom, doing resets and everything.You may kill minicom from a script with the command "! killall -9 minicom"without hanging up the line. Without the -9 parameter, minicom first hangs up before exiting..PPSince a lot of escape sequences begin with ESC (Arrow up is ESC [ A),Minicom does not know if the escape character it gets is you pressingthe escape key, or part of a sequence..PPAn old version of Minicom, V1.2, solved this in a rather crude way:to get the escape key, you had to press it .IR twice ..PPAs of release 1.3 this has bettered a little: now a 1-second timeoutis builtin, like in vi. For systems that have the select() system callthe timeout is 0.5 seconds. And... surprise: a special Linux-dependant.BR hack " :-) was added. Now, minicom can separate the escape key and"escape-sequences. To see how dirty this was done, look into wkeys.c.But it works like a charm!.SH FILESMinicom keeps it's configuration files in one directory, usually/var/lib/minicom, /usr/local/etc or /etc. To find out what defaultdirectory minicom has compiled in, issue the command \fIminicom -h\fP.You'll probably also find the demo files for \fBrunscript\fP(1),and the examples of character conversion tables either there or in the subdirectories of /usr/doc/minicom*. The conversion tables arenamed something like mc.* in that directory, but you probably want tocopy the ones you need in your home directory as something beginningwith a dot..sp 1.nfminicom.usersminirc.*$HOME/.minirc.*$HOME/.dialdir$HOME/minicom.log/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo.fi.SH VERSIONMinicom is now up to version 1.83..SH AUTHORSThe original author of minicom is Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl).He wrote versions up to 1.75..brJukka Lahtinen (walker@clinet.fi, walker@megabaud.fi) has been responsiblefor new versions since 1.78, helped by some other people, including:.brfilipg@paranoia.com wrote the History buffer searching to 1.79..brArnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) did the internationalization and the Brasilian Portuguese translations..brJim Seymour (jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com) wrote the multiple modem support and the filename selection window used since 1.80..brTomohiro Kubota (kubota@debian.or.jp) wrote the Japanese translations and the citation facility, and did some fixes..brGael Queri (gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr) wrote the French translations..brArkadiusz Miskiewicz (misiek@debian.eu.org) wrote the Polish translations..brKim soyoung (nexti@chollian.net) wrote the Korean translations..PPMost of this man page is copied, with corrections, from the original minicomREADME, but some pieces and the corrections are by Michael K. Johnson(johnsonm@stolaf.edu)..PPJukka Lahtinen (walker@clinet.fi) has added some information of the changes made after version 1.75.