chvt utility and device node symlinks

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:47:31PM +0100, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:36:40PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
>>i wrote:
>> > i think you're looking for something like minicom.  i thought i
>> > remembered a smaller replacement for minicom, but i can't seem to
>> > find it right now.
>>
>>someone just reminded me off-list:  "picocom" is a small terminal
>>emulation program.  i'm not convinced it's the one i was
>>remembering, but looking at its docs, it certainly seems capable
>>enough.
>
>http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/package/microcom/
>
>IIRC is rather small (10k? don't remember).

yeah. /me don't like picocom ;)

Something like
$ size picocom-1.4/picocom microcom-1.02/microcom
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  14795    1336    4260   20391    4fa7 picocom-1.4/picocom
  10481     504    1292   12277    2ff5 microcom-1.02/microcom