Serial terminal recommendations wanted
Hi, 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? Thanks, Peter.
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:29:34AM +0100, samwise wrote:
Hi,
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?
Kermit possibly? If it's still around and being maintained. -- Chris Green
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:35:22PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 12 May 2011 14:24, Chris G <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:29:34AM +0100, samwise wrote:
Can anyone recommend a serial terminal program? Kermit possibly? If it's still around and being maintained.
zmodem is more efficient ...
Surely zmodem is a protocol, kermit is a full blown terminal application available for most platforms which happens also to have a protocol called kermit that goes with it. Yes, zmodem is a *slightly* more efficient way of transferring data. -- Chris Green
Thanks, guys. G-Kermit looks well worth investigating ... I also noticed with interest that the whole Kermit commercial project has been cancelled and all the software will be open-sourced under the revised 3-clause BSD license on or before June 30th, which is rather fortuitous. Peter.
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. -- Trust me, you wouldn't like us when we're angry.
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.
Hmm ... the use-case is connecting to/from an 8-bit micro, so I'm looking for something that isn't using a protocol like zmodem or kermit - just raw transfers. It looks like C-Kermit can be made to do this, and I think minicom too. I'm not sure the others you've listed will fit the bill, unfortunately, though I'll have another look when I actually have the setup to play around with. It's a shame that it looks like there's no easy GUI-type tool (like Tera Term 4 on Windows) which might be easier for newbie users, but as long as something works, one can't really complain. :) Cheers for the suggestions, Peter.
On 12/05/11 23:17, samwise wrote:
It's a shame that it looks like there's no easy GUI-type tool (like Tera Term 4 on Windows) which might be easier for newbie users, but as long as something works, one can't really complain. :)
I might be imagining it but I am sure I have used gtkterm in the past to send and receive binary files. Don't think there are Windows builds though.
I might be imagining it but I am sure I have used gtkterm in the past to send and receive binary files. Don't think there are Windows builds though.
Wayne, That does look like it has raw file transfers, so looks a pretty good match ... I knew about GTKTerm and have used it in the past so I'm not sure how I completely missed that. I'll definitely take a closer look! Thanks, Peter.
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