Hyperterminal Like Program - Page 1
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author: Tony R
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 07:32:24 pm
content: Hello, I am looking for a HyperTerminal like program. As we all know Microsoft decided that it was not necessary in the new version of windows.So I am looking for a free basic program to communicate via serial. Does anyone know of a good one?

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 07:36:48 pm
content: Kermit or minicom, Google is your friend

author: Neganur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 07:50:28 pm
content: https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 07:51:53 pm
content: A better alternative(s) to Hyperterminalhttp://www.microchip.com/forums/m197827.aspx

author: Balaur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 07:58:07 pm
content: What, no love forTeraTerm?Edit:Better (?) download link

author: harnon
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 08:08:50 pm
content: I've used CoolTerm beforehttp://freeware.the-meiers.org/. Its mentioned in a few Arduino books for serial comms.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 08:09:16 pm
content: Puttyseems to work fine for the occasional serial console under Windows.

author: 8086
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 08:20:51 pm
content: http://www.virtualserialport.com/products/serial-port-terminal/Costs, but very useful.

author: Short Circuit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 08:36:53 pm
content: RealTerm (http://realterm.sourceforge.net/) is very nice, haven't used hyperterm since I found it.Also has indicators and toggles for the handshake signals, sometimes very useful.

author: Richard W.
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 08:38:28 pm
content: I'd recommend HTerm. It's good and free.http://www.heise.de/software/download/hterm/53283

author: Teknotronix
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2012, 10:53:53 pm
content: If you have access to a windows XP machine you can just copy the hypertrm.exe and hypertrm.dll to your Win 7 install and it works.

author: AlphZeta
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 04:17:01 pm
content: PuTTYhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/has been my all-time favorite under Windows. It can handle SSH or terminal sessions.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 04:58:42 pm
content: There is alsohTerm.

author: logictom
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 05:30:47 pm
content: Another vote for Putty - great little program and like mentioned above great for other comms.

author: EEwannabe
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 06:47:18 pm
content: I also just use Putty, but there are some nice looking features in those other programs.- Patrick

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 09:10:16 pm
content: Putty is nice and unobtrusive when you have a working serial connection that you want to use. Some of the other programs are helpful when troubleshooting or debugging serial connections. I've used RealTerm in the past, but I found it quite cumbersome for basic serial console work for some reason, don't remember the exact issues, may have been related to escape or control characters.

author: xygor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2012, 10:13:49 pm
content: The TeraTerm link listed earlier in this thread AFAIK is for a version (3.1.3) that does not work with Windows 7.This one, however, does:http://logmett.com/index.php?/download/tera-term-472-freeware.html

author: Tony R
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2012, 03:24:15 am
content: Well I have tried some of your suggestions, and there where some great ideas. However, I have not found any i really like.So I am going to write my own! I have the basic program down already written in C#. I'll post a link to it when I am happy with it.

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2012, 11:46:18 pm
content: I had to do the same at work recently, I had to write "MyTerminal" with the functionality I needed, I used C# as well.

author: boulderjoe
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 09, 2012, 03:55:20 am
content: One more in favor of Putty for windows.-Joe

author: glider944
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 09:07:58 am
content: Try Moni ...http://www.rolf-schroedter.de/moni/

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 12:32:05 pm
content: Try "Terminal 1.93".

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 12:51:43 pm
content: The thing with Hyperterminal and its Microsoft predecessor Windows Terminal was that for nearly a whole generation, they were installed as standard on nearly every windows PC sold. Hyperterminal is a truly crappy piece of software with some egregious bugs, but up until the 2010's you could walk into any workshop and be 90%+ confident it would be on the bench PC. IMHO all the competing replacements loose that convenience.

author: G0HZU
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 01:06:51 pm
content: Quote from: Tony R on February 07, 2012, 03:24:15 amThat's what I prefer to do. Usually, my needs are fairly basic so the great advantage of writing your own is that it can be streamlined to perform a specific task and can have extra custom features fitted to suit a given task.I've used several common commercial alternatives and they are usually a bit too irritating to set up and use for each task.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 01:13:16 pm
content: If you know what a BBS is, you might like syncterm (cross platform,http://cterm.bbsdev.net).

author: MarkF
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 01:38:03 pm
content: Microsoft replaces HyperTerminal with Telnet Client in Windows 7/8. But, it's not installed by default. Gohereto for the installation procedure.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 02:57:03 pm
content: Unfortunately Telnet Cliebt is no help when you need to talk to a device sitting on a local COM port. You would also need a Telnet server that acts as a COM port bridge.

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 04:12:45 pm
content: Quote from: Tony R on February 05, 2012, 07:32:24 pmNot free, and also for the Mac (and Mac only), isSerial. Absolutely worth the thirty bucks. Among its features is that it can talk to every USB-to-RS232 dongle I've thrown at it, even those which have no native Mac drivers and aren't supported on newish versions of Windows.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 04:47:50 pm
content: Quote from: glider944 on July 17, 2015, 09:07:58 amWhy on earth is a newbie with a total of one post, offering advice to a question posted 3 years ago

author: Dago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2015, 10:52:41 pm
content: Putty is ok if the data is actual ASCII. For actual binary data I've used realterm (it is quite confusing in my opinion, hard to understand what it is doing) but I don't really like it. I should probably check out some of the solutions mentioned in this topic.Having dealt with some serial data in some of my own software using Qt and QSerialPort I've seriously contemplated on making my own serial terminal software for binary data, having not found any good solutions...