On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:43:01 +0100 Sid Boyce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Twenty odd years ago I discovered gtkterm. You have to build it on > openSUSE as they dropped it years ago but a package is available in > Ubuntu. > > Since I discovered gtkterm I have never bothered with any of the > others and I have used it as a terminal to Mainframes, SPARC > Enterprise systems, ARM, etc. > It's a clone of Windows hyperterminal, Configuration --> Port -- set > /dev/ttyUSB0, 8-N-1, 115200, save the configuration as default so you > don't have to do it again and off you go. > > It also allows you to save everything to a file should you need to > look over it later. > https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ > > Minicom should have been pensioned off decades ago. > Regards > Sid. > I did the git and it isn't finding gkt3, which I do have installed. But I'm sure I can work around this. At least the program has been touched in the last century. Minicom looks like the old Z modem from the win95 days. You can kind of see why a terminal emulator doesn't get much love these days, given the death of serial ports. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
