I am a Network Technician working in a Telecoms company.
I have installed Linux Fedora on a pentium 4 machine and with Minicom 2.1 software for terminal services.
This linux box will connect several servers together through serial connectors using a Digi Ports/16EM hardware box.I have already installed the software for this and it is working ok.

When i login to the linux box it gives me a menu which lists the 7 servers from 1-7 When i pick an option i go into that menu and do whatever i want from there.

In total i need 31 scripts (which are .con files ) to use with the scripts for servers 1-7
I have all these scripts from the last unix box but it used a program called TERM for terminal services

Q. How do i get the .con files to execute minicom 2.1 instead of TERM?

If you need i could easily send you over the files to take a look at. I just need to take out the word term in the menu scripts and change it to minicom i think.
Though i dont know how to get the 31 .con files to run minicom instead of TERM.

p.s. we wont be using TERM on the new linux box.

In general program names are written in lower case and variable names are written in upper case. So I would bet that TERM is a variable containing the name of the program to run. You can find out the value of a variable using the echo command:

echo $TERM

On my system xterm is the name of the program that TERM contains. I run SuSE. I don't know if FEDORA uses a variable called TERM or not. You could check with the echo command. If Fedora is not already using TERM then you could change each script to use minicom by placing this command at the head of each script:

TERM=minicom

If TERM is being used by FEDORA then you should stick with the idea of changing all of the TERM variables to the minicom command.

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Steve Stites