			=== README ===

Quick instructions for installing:

1. Change to the minicom-1.82.1/src directory (where minicom-1.82.1 should
   be the directory where this file was unpacked)
2. make
3. make install    (this should be done as root, or if you are logged in as
		   somebody else, do "su -c 'make install'")
4. as root, do 'minicom -s' to enter the configuration mode. Check all the
   settings, change what should be changed on your system, and choose
   'Save setup as dfl' from the configuration menu to save the changed
   settings as system defaults.
   Edit /etc/minicom.users, adding the usernames which should be allowed
   to use minicom.

Now you should have minicom comiled, installed and ready to use.

For more information, have a look at the next files:

Install		- How to install Minicom
doc/Locales	- Information of the string localization feature
doc/Macros	- Notes on color & macro additions
doc/ChangeLog	- Does not necessarily interest you if you are a new user.
		  If you have used older versions of minicom, here you can
		  see what has changed lately. The newest things are at
		  the end of the file.
doc/Porting	- How to port minicom to new architectures.
		  In the future, this can probably be done more easily with
		  the autoconf facility.
man/minicom.1	- Manual for 'minicom' itself.
man/runscript.1	- Manual page for the "runscript" script interpreter.
src/Makefile	- Configurable Makefile

Directories:
demos/		- Demo's for the 'runscript' program.
src/		- Minicom source
src/po		- Text strings for national languages
terminfo/	- Terminfo entry for minicom on Linux console
termcap/	- New termcap entries (better!)
doc/		- Some documentation.
linux/		- Binaries for the utilities I don't have sources for
tables/		- Predefined character conversion tables

Www:
For information about the newest version, what has changed since 
the previous version, and sometimes possibly the newest beta version 
(if there is one available), look at 
http://www.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html

If you want to use minicom with network-modem software, have a look
at "modem-0.1b", sunsite:/pub/Linux/apps/comm/modem-0.1b.tar.gz by
Merijn de Jonge <mdejonge@fwi.uva.nl>.

miquels@cistron.nl
walker@clinet.fi