# Installing microcom

Microcom is an open source tool developed by Pengutronix under to easily communicate to tty devices via terminal.
It is licensed under GPLv2.

I went to theri github and downloaded the repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/pengutronix/microcom
```

## Requirements

There are 3 tools required:
- [autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
- [automake](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)
- [autoconf archive](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/)

to install microcom.
Microcom also depends on the [readline](https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html) library.


## Configuration

I used the command below, since I cloned the repository and haven't downloaded microcom from a release tarball.
```bash
autoreconf -i
```

After that, the configuration can begin:
```bash
./configure
make
```

## Installation

the installation is a very typical installation using the Makefile in the programms root directory:
```bash
sudo make install
```

## Usage

### Usage for TTY devices:
```bash
microcom --speed=115200 --port=/dev/ttyS0
```

### Usage for remote serial ports via RFC 2217
```bash
microcom --speed=115200 --telnet=somehost:port
```


*source:* [pengutronix on github](https://github.com/pengutronix/microcom)