On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:29:34AM +0100, samwise wrote:
Can anyone recommend a serial terminal program?
Ideally, I was looking for cross-platform (incl. Windows) and GUI-based. PuTTY seemed ideal, but my list of requirements is:
USB com ports, 115200 Baud, RTS/CTS hardware handshaking and binary file send & receive
That final requirement, binary file send & receive, is where I don't think PuTTY can help, nor any of the other GUI serial terminal programs I've looked at.
Text-only minicom is the only terminal which I *think* has the ability to send & receive files (from looking at the man page), though I won't actually be able to try it out with the use-case I'm looking at for a weeks.
Meantime, I just wondered whether anyone had any recommendations for programs I may have overlooked?
Depending on my mood I use screen, cu or minicom. screen can tie in with the lrzsz tools to do uploads/downloads. However mostly I don't care about flow control (or rather, explicitly don't want it). In my experience minicom is the best tool when using flow control, because it makes it very clear what it's doing. Otherwise I tend to use screen these days (which apparently can handle flow control, but it's a while since I've needed to).
Le Putty appears to be PuTTY with zmodem support, but I've no experience of it: http://leputty.sourceforge.net/
J.