Copying text into minicom doesn't get pasted completely - console

Question

I am trying to paste a line; which is:
setenv -p STARTUP "ifconfig eth0 -auto;boot -z -elf 136.170.195.87:vmlinuz-nfs-7231b0-D183-NFS-DEBUG 'root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=136.170.195.87:/export/home/joshis1/vmlinuz-nfs-7231b0-D183/rootfs/nfs rw bmem=226M#30M ip=dhcp'"
When I try to copy the line in minicom, the line is not copied completely.
What should I do?

Answer 1

I have solved this by setting Character tx delay to 1ms.
Ctrl+A followed by z
select 't'
select 'f'
type '1'
and there you go!

Answer 2

Maybe you are running without line wrap on? I had a problem until I started invoking with "minicom -w". In the problem condition, output line content beyond screen width was lost, input line content wrapped to beginning of line.
If I'm not wrong you should exit minicom, start it again with "minicom -w".

Answer 3

Or even better, try using 'screen' instead of 'minicom'. I gave up minicom a long time ago in favor of screen. Once you get used to it, you'll never go back!. Chris Stratton was probably right: you're overrunning the target. There is no flow control in virtually all embedded targets. That said, I do these copy operations from screen all the time using screen to set u-boot environment variables, and never have any issues. Depends on your target, too!
Invoke screen something like this:
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
Of course, the device node corresponding to your serial port will be different depending on your serial device. The example above is typical for Linux with a USB serial dongle. On my macbook, it usually comes up as something like this for the same serial dongle:
/dev/tty.usbserial
If you like vi, you'll love screen.

Answer 4

I do like the suggestion of this answer to use screen.
However, if you want to keep using minicom an option is to enable both Software flow control and Line wrap.
To enable Software flow control:
press Ctrl+A followed by o
go down to Serial port setup and enter it
press g to switch Software Flow Control to Yes (if not previously enabled)
press Esc and select Save setup as dfl if you want to permanently save the configuration
To enable Line wrap:
press Ctrl+A followed by o
go down to Screen and keyboard and enter it
press r to switch Line Wrap to Yes (if not previously enabled)
press Esc and select Save setup as dfl if you want to permanently save the configuration
Line wrapping can also be enabled by starting minicom with the -w option or by pressing Ctrl+A followed by w.