How to toggle CR/LF in gnu screen?

Question

I\'m using screen to read the text from a serial console. The problem is the output seems to only have newline \\n but not carriage return \\r, so the display looks like thi

Answer 1

If you use the miniterm.py program that comes with pyserial it will interpret newlines as crlf. It is not the most fully-featured terminal emulator but for interacting with simple serial devices it gets the job done.

Usage syntax (on OSX):

miniterm.py /dev/tty.usbserial-XXXXXX 115200

Replace XXXXXX with whatever the device comes up on your system as.