Using Screen to connect to a serial console

Not much to write about here.  You can use screen as a replacement for minicom. Who knew!?!?!  Screen will never stop amazing me with all the cool stuff that it can do.

To set the baud rate to 57,600:

To enable CTS/RTS handshake:

^a,k to end the session.
^a,i to check the status of the serial port.

Here is the .screenrc that I found on the Interweb and have been using for a little over a year now. I wish I knew who to give credit to.

It remaps the meta key from ^a to ^z so that I can still use ^a in bash to get to the beginning of the line. It also has a handy clock at the bottom of the screen. Enjoy!