Either the computer you are connecting to has no contol signals or your   
wire is just RX TX and no CD or RTS or CTS.

There is an option in cu to not use flow control, you might try that.

John A. Maier
Kemper Military School and College
Director of MIS
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Fax: 660-882-3778
Email: johnam@kemper.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Chen [mailto:jchen@liberate.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:41 PM
> To: NetBSD Help; John A. Maier
> Subject: serial program
>
>
>
> I need a good serial program.
>
> minicom's got most of what I need except
> I can't make it strip 8bit chars and the term
> got mess up by bad chars.  The major
> problem is the only way to get a huge log
> off it is to turn on capture before hand.
> The scroll back doesn't seem to have a save
> option.
>
> I used to use cu in emacs on a sgi, but that
> program seems hopeless on my bsd machine:
>
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen> cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 115200
> Connected.
> cu: write: Input/output error
>
> Disconnected.
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen>
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen>
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen>
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen>
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen> cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 115200
> Connected.
> hellcu: Got hangup signal
>
> Disconnected.
> yyy63 /usr/people/jchen>
>
>
>
> Anyone got a good suggestion?
>
> thanks,
>
> joel...
>
>
>