man screen will show you further commands to Session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the If youįail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen So typeĬontrol-A followed by Control-\ to exit your screen session. Screen uses Control-A to take commands directed to it. Something other than the Keyspan Serial Adapter (do an ls tty* of the The screen command with a different device name if you are using May want to customize this slightly - you can change the screenĬolors or number of columns or rows. Set custom title of window 1 to 'SerialOut'Ĭompile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have aĭouble-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session. Set normal text color of window 1 to 'green' Set background color of window 1 to 'black' Solution: Use screen,įirst, launch Script Editor and type/paste in the following code: tell application 'Terminal'ĭo script with command 'screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1' Of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex. The developerĭoesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. In five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. Themselves: ZTerm is a horrible Mac OS X app. I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a I love using for connecting to serial consoles, i.e. You can use the terminal command screen to do this!!!