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 # picocom
 
+picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it's pico instead of mini!
+
+Picocom was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open terminal window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove useful in many other similar tasks.
+
+Picocom is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped).
+
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+Name:          picocom
+Version:       1.7
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       A minimal dumb-terminal emulation program.
+Group:         Applications/Communication
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
+URL:           http://code.google.com/p/picocom/
+Source:        http://picocom.googlecode.com/files/picocom-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       GPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%debug_package
+
+%description
+picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it's pico instead of mini!
+
+Picocom was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open terminal window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove useful in many other similar tasks.
+
+Picocom is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped).
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+install -D -m0755 picocom %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/picocom
+for f in pcasc pcxm pcym pczm; do
+   install -m0755 $f %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/$f
+done
+install -D -m0644 picocom.8 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8/picocom.8
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/pcasc
+%{_bindir}/pcxm
+%{_bindir}/pcym
+%{_bindir}/pczm
+%{_bindir}/picocom
+%{_mandir}/man8/picocom.8.gz
+%doc LICENSE.txt CONTRIBUTORS
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Mar 29 2012 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.7-1mamba
+- package created by autospec