[Toybox] 1. [PATCH] Add "microcom" to pending. (enh)

[enh]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:00 PM, scsijon <scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
> microcom has it's own package at
> https://github.com/Oliviers-OSS/microcom
> nothing done for about three years
> nice but very limited option switches
>
> however there is also picocom found at
> https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom
> and compiles to a 23k single file with a lot more option switches

i'm assuming from the lack of options on busybox's microcom that most
people don't need much. i think most of the extra stuff here would be
better done by just implementing stty instead.

> help is-
> picocom v1.2
> Usage is: picocom [options] <tty device>
> Options are:
>   --<b>aud <baudrate>
>   --<f>low s (=soft) | h (=hard) | n (=none)
>   --<p>arity o (=odd) | e (=even) | n (=none)
>   --<d>atabits 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
>   --<e>scape <char>
>   --no<i>nit
>   --no<r>eset
>   --<s>end-cmd <command>
>   --recei<v>e-cmd <command>
>   --<h>elp
> <?> indicates the equivalent short option.
> Short options are prefixed by "-" instead of by "--".
>
> maybe (is to me) of more use in todays world
> and is still being maintained and updated.
>
> regards
>>
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>> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:19:25 -0800
>> From: enh <enh at google.com>
>> To: "toybox at lists.landley.net" <toybox at lists.landley.net>
>> Subject: [Toybox] [PATCH] Add "microcom" to pending.
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>> Our device bringup folks wanted a simple serial console, both on the
>> host and on the device. This is certainly enough to replace what I've
>> been using personally on the host.
>>
>> I'd never heard of "microcom" until I asked the internets what busybox
>> users use, so I don't care what we call this or what the options are
>> called. (But would like to decide before it gets ossified in a million
>> factory test scripts and the like!)
>>
>> The tool that this replaces for me defaulted to /dev/ttyUSB0, but since
>> I don't know whether that default would be useful for most other people
>> too, I left that out. Command-line history will solve my transition
>> problem.
>> ---
>>  toys/pending/microcom.c | 104
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 toys/pending/microcom.c
>>
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