Minicom in a black box?

[Oisin Curtin]

I need to do a transfer across dialup lines when no one is at either 
end.  The process must run from cron.

I hope to use minicom at the source end since it does everything I need, 
except run without a screen.

Is there anything I can do to make minicom comfortable as a background 
program?


-- 
Oisin  "I have no screen, and I must send"  Curtin
                  -- almost Harlan Ellison