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[#301193] 'Serial Device' configuration value only used on startup

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Date:
2005-02-14 17:50		 Priority:
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'Serial Device' configuration value only used on startup

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In Minicom 2.1, type CTRL-A O to get to the Configuration menu, select 'Serial port setup', hit A to select 'Serial Device', then type in a different value than the default.

Minicom continues to use the original value unless you save the setup, then quit and restart minicom.

I don't know if this is a "bug" or a "feature". I would expect minicom to begin using the new value immediately. If that is in fact how it should behave, then this is a bug.

However, I could imagine that the current behavior is how minicom is supposed to behave. But, if this is the case, this should be documented somewhere - atleast pop up a message after changing the setting which notifies the user that they need to quit and restart before changes will take effect - and a note in the man page might help. I spent hours banging my head on the desk trying to figure out why my serial ports weren't working before I finally ran lsof and discovered that minicom wasn't using the right device because I kept changing the Serial Device setting without saving the settings!

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