On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Erik Osheim wrote:

> Related to this: I have such an adaptor at home, and have tried to
> connect an 8500/120 running NetBSD 1.6.2 to an i386 box also running
> NetBSD. I'm pretty young, so I've never had to do much with serial
> consoles, etc, and I was wondering: what are the expected commands to
> do something like this. Basically, I just want to be able to send text
> to a device on one side (echo 'yarr' > /dev/???) and read it on the
> other side (cat /dev/???).

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/Hardware/Misc/serial.html

The command to use is cu -l /dev/tty?? -s 38400
where ?? depends on your platform and which physical port you're using.
Also, to get out of cu, type ~.
  -- MW