Copyright 2000-2004 by Scott Gifford sgifford@suspectclass.com This software is licensed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING included with this distribution for details
interceptty is designed to sit between a serial port (or other terminal device, or program, or socket, or something connected to a file descriptor) and a program which is communicating with that device, recording everything that goes back and forth between the two. It does this by opening the real device, creating a pseudo-tty, then forwarding everything between the two, recording whatever it sees. It has a number of options that let you fine-tune the devices it uses and the terminal options for the real device.
See the included manpage for more information.
The configuration of interceptty is now managed by autoconf. That means that you run
./configure
make
make install
to go from just-unwrapped-the-tarfile to installed-on-your-computer.
For more details on using the configure script, run:
./configure --help
or see the INSTALL file included with this distribution.
There is a test script that is useful for making sure everything's basically worked. After compiling and before installing, it's a good idea to run:
./test
The script takes about 30 seconds to run, and will run interceptty in several configurations, making sure they all work as expected.