Hyper Terminal replacement and other tools

JOLTRON · Dec 16, 2008

I am looking for a replacement for hyperterminal. My XP system doesn't have hyperterminal or telnet. I am currently trying to use PuTTY but it isn't as user friendly due to the complexity of everything you can do. So I am wondering what the pro's use out there.

Also I have found a Fox-toolkit calculator that figures out bit shifts left and right. I was wondering if any one knows of another bit shift calculator or any other nifty tools.

rdrast · Dec 16, 2008

I use realterm a lot.
http://realterm.sourceforge.net/

OZEE · Dec 16, 2008

You're sure you don't have HT? It was bundled natively up through XP (Not in Vista, I think.) If it's not there, you should be able to find an XP install disk and add it.

In my XP it's Start > Accessories > Communications > Hypterterminal

supporter · Dec 16, 2008

Hi,

I use LKA all the time, have a try (it's freeware):
http://hem.passagen.se/downloadlka/lka/index.htm

//Supporter

Ken Roach · Dec 16, 2008

I use Realterm as well.

I lost my trust of Hyperterminal when I caught it deleting bytes when three identical bytes came in sequence. Bad terminal program. Bad !

monkeyhead · Dec 16, 2008

I use tera-term. It's straight forward, simple and free. It can also act a telnet or SSH client.

JOLTRON · Dec 17, 2008

OZEE said:
You're sure you don't have HT? It was bundled natively up through XP (Not in Vista, I think.) If it's not there, you should be able to find an XP install disk and add it.

In my XP it's Start > Accessories > Communications > Hypterterminal

Yep, I'm sure. I have looked thru multiple times. It was on previously then IT worked on my laptop formated and re-installed xp and now it no longer exists.

cjd1965 · Dec 17, 2008

You could get your IT to add hyperterminal via the add/remove windows components in the control panel

JOLTRON · Dec 18, 2008

cjd1965 said:
You could get your IT to add hyperterminal via the add/remove windows components in the control panel

Thought about that but things are alot easier not dealing with them. Plus they are contract and only onsite once a week. Also I heard that hyper terminal isn't even in vista. So if i ever changed OS it nice to know the name of other options. So far I have tried all 4 of these programs listed.

PuTTY
Real Term
LKA
Tera Term

And for what I have done I like Real Term the most options but still pretty simple, next choise would be Tera Term for it's simplicity.

bulletin blues · Dec 18, 2008

For the record...
You need to enable telnet client in xp/vista.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/81b6d4b7-905e-4d70-8379-7934913fedb01033.mspx

You may also want to check this out.
http://www.wintabber.com/

klm123 · Jul 7, 2011

JOLTRON said:
I am looking for a replacement for hyperterminal. My XP system doesn't have hyperterminal or telnet. I am currently trying to use PuTTY but it isn't as user friendly due to the complexity of everything you can do. So I am wondering what the pro's use out there.

Also I have found a Fox-toolkit calculator that figures out bit shifts left and right. I was wondering if any one knows of another bit shift calculator or any other nifty tools.

I user a simpler utility- visual protocol simulator
download from this link
http://www.microsant.com/download.html

klm123 · Jul 11, 2011

klm123 said:
I user a simpler utility- visual protocol simulator
download from this link
http://www.microsant.com/download.html

so VPS is NOT an exact replacement of hyperTerminal
I still use hyperTerminal and Putty..
VPS only run on a serial port of your computer.
so if I want to pass bytes, ascii characters or transfer file to my application I use VPS because its simple.

notageek1212 · Sep 26, 2011

Hi there,
I just wanted to let everyone know that I came across a new free terminal "ClearTerminal" which seems to be good.You can try this one out if you need a replacement for putty or any other terminal.
It's available for download at
http://www.clearconnex.com/content/clearterminal
Have a good time

2rlp · Sep 28, 2011

Any of the above run on Win 7 ??

Ron

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