Minicom For Mac

Minicom is a software solution designed to help you connect to and control serial consoles from your Mac. The system comes with ANSI and VT102 terminal emulations, a dialing directory and automatic zmodem download capabilities.

The original Minicom project delivers only the source package that has to be compiled and installed manually. This Minicom installer package reduces the procedure to merely following on-screen instructions.

Since compiling and installing Minicom via the shell can prove time-consuming, using a binary package can save you a lot of effort. The installer will deploy the Minicom serial communications solution on your Mac while the user simply has to confirm the procedure.

The installer uses the /opt/minicom/2.2 folder for the output: within the directory you will be able to find libraries, configuration files, and binaries. Moreover, the Minicom installer also creates symlinks in the /opt/bin/ directory, and the user has to modify the PATH in consequence.

Within the OS X Terminal application, you can easily run the Minicom installation or use the help command to see details about the supported functions and configuration options.

The Minicom software solution can be used to send commands to a modem or serial console connected to your Mac via USB, and within the command line you can choose to run scripts, to dial entries, to connect to a pseudo terminal, to capture the data in a file, and so on.

To sum up, the Minicom installer package offers an alternative solution for deploying the serial communication solution with the same name without manually compile and install the software.

Once the installation procedure is complete, you will have access to the entire collection of port controlling functions provided by Minicom.