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Best RS232 terminal?
PKTKS:
Well..
Some folks relate "terminals" to ancient stuff ...
(that specially fits folks which like systemd bizarre way of things...)
Terminals are indeed the core protocol pathways...
Needless to say that rollback way down 80s and early days
where terminals were pretty much defined in the core OS
like screen, keyb, lines, tapes.
Mincom predates all the above. It dates back mid 90s
but indeed early 90s terminals for core protocol handling
https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom
It just evolved as a complete solution to whatever
protocol you may need by ncurses and any external applet.
Activelly maitanined.
No crappy UI to mess your life
Can run standalone even from a REAL INIT system V
No useless stuff around
Still "THE" complete set of options
That includes from MODEM setup to KERMIT like
Can not think of a more robust and tested applet.
Putty is kinda juvenile compared to Minicom
Paul
cs.dk:
I like MobaXterm. It does it all, FTP, RS232, SSH, Telnet, you name it. And it does list active COM-ports.
ajb:
I've been sticking with Hterm (http://www.der-hammer.info/pages/terminal.html) for the last several years. I've tried pretty much all of the others mentioned in this thread and it has be best balance of features and stability IME. It will occasionally crash if I send it too much data too quickly (like flat out at 3Mbd for ten seconds), but i just noticed I wasn't on the latest version, so maybe that's fixed now.
maginnovision:
I typically write my own programs. One advantage of this is you can scan ports and "auto" identify ports and equipment, assuming the equipment in question has a way to identify itself. When I don't use my own programs it's either putty or realterm.
SiliconWizard:
Another one: YAT
https://sourceforge.net/projects/y-a-terminal/
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