2.5. Configure the terminal or the terminal emulator
Configure the terminal to match the serial parameters. The
data bits, parity bits and stop bits must match. If a modern
"smart" modem is used then the bit speeds need not
match. If a dumb modem or a null modem cable is used then the bit
speeds must match.
Set CTS/RTS handshaking
on, DTR/DSR handshaking off
and XON/XOFF handshaking off.
Your equipment may call
CTS/RTS handshaking or
DTR/DSR handshaking
"hardware handshaking" and may call
XON/XOFF handshaking
"software handshaking".
Set automatic line wrapping on. This allows all of a long
console message to be read.
Set the received end of line characters to
CR LF (carriage return then
line feed). Set the transmitted end of line characters to just
CR (carriage return).
If you are using a terminal emulator then it is best to
choose to emulate the popular DEC
VT100 or
VT102 terminal. Later terminals in the
DEC VT range are compatible
with the VT100. If this terminal is not
available then try to emulate another terminal that implements
ANSI X3.64-1979
Additional Controls for Use with American National Standard Code
for Information Interchange (or its successor
ISO/IEC 6429:1992
ISO Information technology — Control
functions for coded character sets). For example, many
emulators have a terminal called ANSI BBS which
uses the IBM PC character set, the 16
IBM PC colors, a 80 column by 25 line
screen and a selection of X3.64-1979 control
sequences.
See the Text-Terminal-HOWTO
for much more information on configuring terminals.