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Best RS232 terminal?
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tmadness:
I personally use Coolterm. Its pretty nice in its UI and offers pretty much every basic feature. Its stable and free. Plus no installation needed its a runnable bin. 
ebastler:

--- Quote from: maginnovision on February 24, 2020, 05:04:25 pm ---I typically write my own programs.

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Judging by the number of entries proposed in this thread, that's what everybody else seems to be doing.  ;)

I am truly surprised by the number of different terminal programs still in active use, and most of them still (more or less) actively maintained.
RoGeorge:
1. Termite, by far the best to my needs.
2. Also, SerialPlot for live charts:  https://hackaday.io/project/5334-serialplot-realtime-plotting-software
peter-h:
Teraterm is great.

For USB to serial, kksystems.com do FTDI based isolated RS232-USB and RS4xx-USB converters which are not "chinese priced" but work very well. Teraterm connects to he virtual serial port created by the driver.
tom66:
PuTTY is nice in many respects and is the one I use, primarily because it is so simple.  But it has several annoying quirks, such as not being able to handle the cable being disconnected well (you need to restart the entire application.) Nor can you change settings easily on the fly.

My wish would be for an app like PuTTY which has the simple design but with more consideration for serial ports/COM ports. TeraTerm is too far in the other direction unfortunately.
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