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maginnovision:

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--- 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.

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Well I have written a general purpose terminal program(back when I wrote PBX management software), but I typically do more specific programs now. There are a LOT of terminal programs though, if you trawled through github I bet you could find a lot more. At this point you can download a bunch of them, try them out, and keep what you like.

VK3DRB:
Teraterm is good and I have been using it for 20 years, but it seriously lacks one thing... it does not display serial data in hexadecimal and does not display non-printable characters. Except for ASCII printable characters, it is pretty useless for low level debugging.

There are better programs around. I like Bray's Terminal. I think it is better than Termite, and much better than Teraterm for RS-232 serial work. You can program some macros in and name the macro buttons. But most of all it is easy to use and you can see the non-printable hex characters as well.

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

digsys:
I had the same problem back in '88, and ended up creating my own Trace.exe
We only had DOS back then, so no fancy interface, but many features, not even found today - they may / may not be useful. eg Time stamping Rxd-Txd to uS, breaking into a serial line and setting up "packet watch" and or "auto replace" strings etc etc
I'll attach the program, it may be of use. Detailed functions are described in the Trace.TXT file. Ignore license / pricing stuff, it paid for itself many times over :-) I still have the dev system (not used it in near 20yrs, but could change things if needed). Actually, I still use the program occasionally.

olkipukki:
I'm using SecureCRT as all-around remote connectivity client

https://www.vandyke.com/products/index.html

ebastler:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on February 25, 2020, 10:12:15 am ---Teraterm is good and I have been using it for 20 years, but it seriously lacks one thing... it does not display serial data in hexadecimal and does not display non-printable characters. Except for ASCII printable characters, it is pretty useless for low level debugging.

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Press Shift-ESC (repeatedly if needed) to toggle TeraTerm between regular mode, debug display, hex display, and entirely muted display.

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