Author Topic: Hyperterminal Like Program (Read 17445 times)

Tony R · « **on:** February 05, 2012, 07:32:24 pm »

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?

grumpydoc · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2012, 07:36:48 pm »

Kermit or minicom, Google is your friend

Neganur · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2012, 07:50:28 pm »

https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/

HLA-27b · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2012, 07:51:53 pm »

A better alternative(s) to Hyperterminal
http://www.microchip.com/forums/m197827.aspx

Balaur · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2012, 07:58:07 pm »

What, no love for TeraTerm?

Edit: Better (?) download link

harnon · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:08:50 pm »

I've used CoolTerm before http://freeware.the-meiers.org/. Its mentioned in a few Arduino books for serial comms.

alm · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:09:16 pm »

Putty seems to work fine for the occasional serial console under Windows.

8086 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:20:51 pm »

http://www.virtualserialport.com/products/serial-port-terminal/

Costs, but very useful.

Short Circuit · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:36:53 pm »

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.

Richard W. · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:38:28 pm »

I'd recommend HTerm. It's good and free.

http://www.heise.de/software/download/hterm/53283

Teknotronix · « **Reply #10 on:** February 05, 2012, 10:53:53 pm »

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.

AlphZeta · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2012, 04:17:01 pm »

PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/has been my all-time favorite under Windows. It can handle SSH or terminal sessions.

firewalker · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2012, 04:58:42 pm »

There is also hTerm.

logictom · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2012, 05:30:47 pm »

Another vote for Putty - great little program and like mentioned above great for other comms.

EEwannabe · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2012, 06:47:18 pm »

I also just use Putty, but there are some nice looking features in those other programs.
- Patrick

alm · « **Reply #15 on:** February 06, 2012, 09:10:16 pm »

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.

xygor · « **Reply #16 on:** February 06, 2012, 10:13:49 pm »

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

Tony R · « **Reply #17 on:** February 07, 2012, 03:24:15 am »

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.

DavidDLC · « **Reply #18 on:** February 07, 2012, 11:46:18 pm »

I had to do the same at work recently, I had to write "MyTerminal" with the functionality I needed, I used C# as well.

boulderjoe · « **Reply #19 on:** February 09, 2012, 03:55:20 am »

One more in favor of Putty for windows.

-Joe

glider944 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 17, 2015, 09:07:58 am »

Try Moni ...

http://www.rolf-schroedter.de/moni/

ElektroQuark · « **Reply #21 on:** July 17, 2015, 12:32:05 pm »

Try "Terminal 1.93".

Ian.M · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2015, 12:51:43 pm »

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.

G0HZU · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2015, 01:06:51 pm »

Quote from: Tony R on February 07, 2012, 03:24:15 am

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.

That'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.

madires · « **Reply #24 on:** July 17, 2015, 01:13:16 pm »

If you know what a BBS is, you might like syncterm (cross platform, http://cterm.bbsdev.net).


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