minicom notes:

	default config file (minicom -s):
		/etc/minicom/minirc.dfl

	When minicom starts, it first searches the MINICOM environment
	variable for command-line arguments, which can be over-ridden on
	the command line. Thus, command line arguments override arguments
	defined in the MINICOM env variable:
		MINICOM='-c on'
		export MINICOM

	To call minicom with a custom configuration file named
	/etc/minicom/minirc.configname:
		minicom configname

	Configuration options with (*) can only be changed by root.

	Misc:
		CTRL+A C - clear the sceen
		CTRL+A E - toggle local echo
		CTRL+A F - send BREAK
		CTRL+A J - jump to shell
		CTRL+A L - turn capture file on off
		CTRL+A O - puts minicom in config mode/menu
		CTRL+A P - change com parameters: bps rate, parity, number of bits
		CTRL+A T - choose  terminal  emulation
		CTRL+A W - toggle linewrap on/off
		CTRL+A X - exit minicom with reset
		CTRL+A Q - exit minicom w/o  reset

minicom man extracts:

       minicom [-somMlwz8] [-c on|off] [-S script] [-d entry]
               [-a on|off] [-t term] [-p pty] [-C capturefile] [configuration]


       -o   Do not initialize. Minicom  will  skip  the  initialization  code.
            This  option  is  handy if you quitted from minicom without reset-
            ting, and then want to restart a session. It is  potentially  dan-
            gerous  though:  no check for lock files etc. is made, so a normal
            user could interfere with things like uucp... Maybe this  will  be
            taken  out  later. For now it is assumed, that users who are given
            access to a modem are responsible enough for their actions.

       -t   Terminal type. With this flag, you can  override  the  environment
            TERM  variable.   This is handy for use in the MINICOM environment
            variable; one can create a special  termcap  entry  for  use  with
            minicom on the console, that initializes the screen to raw mode so
            that in conjunction with the -l flag, the IBM line characters  are
            displayed untranslated.

       -w   Turns linewrap on at startup by default.

       -p   Pseudo terminal to use. This overrides the terminal  port  defined
            in  the  configuration  files, but only if it is a pseudo tty. The
            filename supplied  must  be  of  the  form  (/dev/)tty[p-z/][0-f],
            (/dev/)pts[p-z/][0-f]   or   (/dev/)pty[p-z/][0-f].  For  example,
            /dev/ttyp1, pts/0 or /dev/ptyp2.

       -C   filename.  Open capture file at startup.

       configuration
            The configuration argument is more interesting. Normally,  minicom
            gets  its defaults from a file called "minirc.dfl". If you however
            give an argument to minicom, it will try to get its defaults  from
            a file called "minirc.configuration".  So it is possible to create
            multiple configuration files, for different ports, different users
            etc.  Most  sensible  is to use device names, such as tty1, tty64,
            sio2 etc. If a user creates his own configuration  file,  it  will
            show up in his home directory as '.minirc.dfl'.