Binary transfer script for minicom.

README.md

Configure minicom with minicom -s and enter the “File transfer protocols” section. You can add a section there called “binary”, point it at your file, and specify:

Field	Value
Name	Binary
Program	bin-xfer -o %l
Name	Y
U/D	U
FullScr	Y
IO-Red	N
Multi	N

bin-xfer.sh

#!/bin/sh
INFILE=/dev/null
OUTFILE=/dev/null

function exists {
  command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
}

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 case "$1" in
 -i)
 shift
 INFILE="$1"
 ;;
 -o)
 shift
 OUTFILE="$1"
 ;;
 -h|--help)
 echo "$0 -i infile -o outfile"
 ;;
 *)
 INFILE="$1"
 esac
 shift
done
cat << EOF
binary-xfer utility for minicom
Sending file ${INFILE} to ${OUTFILE}
EOF

if (exists pv); then
  pv --force -i 0.25 -B 128  ${INFILE}  2>&1 > ${OUTFILE}
else
  cat ${INFILE} > ${OUTFILE}
fi

cat << EOF
 
File transfer complete
EOF

sleep 1

Thank you! I can transfer binary file via minicom without teraterm.

i still cant transfer my .bin file

Thank you for this resource, I appreciate your work and time.

I have a quick question, I downloaded minicom trough homebrew and then I created a file called bin-xfer in the same directory as the ascii-xfr file, I made sure to give the new one the same execution permissions as the ascii-xfr file and made sure the bin-xfer works by simply calling it from the terminal.

The issue is that after I create the custom file transfer protocol in minicom and then run it, something goes wrong and it simply does not do anything. Do you by any chance have an idea why this might be happening?

Syntax error

/usr/bin/bin-xfer: 5: function: not found
/usr/bin/bin-xfer: 7: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

Unless I replace the first line with:

#!/bin/bash