Serial Port Terminal Program

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> I am using GtkTerm and streaming data off and on at 19200 baud, and it
> is losing data. There is no hand shaking hardware or software. (It is
> custom HW I am developing and testing.)
>
> Is there a better terminal program that does not lose data at that
> relatively slow speed? (I have also seen it lose data at 9600 baud.) I
> am trying to capture the data to a file for review later.
>
> I have a 2.8 GHz AMD with 1 GB RAM. Nothing fancy.
>
> I may have to go back to a DOS program, or Hyper Terminal on XP.

I find it unlikely it's losing data, but there are lots of alternatives.

xterm has been around forever, gnome-terminal and konsole are popular,
and there's only about 1000 more choices in Synaptic you could try.