Serial Port Terminal Program

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:22:34 -0500
Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vince - I believe I suggested using 'screen' earlier?

No.

>  It will connect directly to the /dev/tty port.  Does that accomplish what you need?

>From the description, it's a terminal emulator so no good.
If it can attach directly to the serial port without any terminal
emulation nor flow control, the perhaps it could be used, but it would
take more than just that to make it as useful and easy/efficient to use
as Gtkterm unfortunately.
So far screen looks like minicom, too versatile, not straiught enough
to the point/easy.

"we" really need a clone of gtkterm.. because it was written by a
fellow electronic designer, so it is 100% to the point, with just the
right features, easily accessible. It allows one to be prodcutive and
efficient. All other terminal program are more geared towards computing
rather electronic design. The author of Gtkterm said "I wrote Gtkterm
because none of the available terminal programs offered an easy way to
debug UART communication on embedded electronics". He wrote this several
years ago, and as far as I can see, the situation is very much the same
today as it was when he wrote it. 
It's annoying because Gtkterm is quite buggy sadly, and unfortunately
unmaintained. But even buggy, it's still the only terminal program that
allows one do debugging work easily/painlessly.
I guess looing for similar programs on MS-DOS or Windows and running
them via emulators or VM's, it the only other option. Pfff...


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Vince