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Hello all and woof

I'm looking for a serial terminal program. (Puppy PC system to sbc over RS232/DB9 connector.)
In more words: a program that has the ability to communicate with a 'remote' single-board computer over a stock 9-pin serial port. You know: 19.2kB or faster). Also I need to be able to open/transmit a text file created/edited under Geany via the serial line. A giant leap backwards, if you think about it.

In the past (and with Windows) I found the open-source program "TeraTerm" worked well.
The source for TeraTerm is available. I can down-load and compile as one option - if nothing else is available.
I read about PuTTY. Anyone here used it?
Other suggestions? Woof to all!

Собака

Can you find 'gtkterm' in the repo for your puppy version? You might also need 'setserial'.

Go to the Puppy Package Manager and just type 'serial' into the search bar.

@Jafadmin

You asked: Can you find 'gtkterm' in the repo for your puppy version? You might also need 'setserial'.

I'm using the Bionic Pup (32-bit). I found:

Also:
# find / -iname 'setseria*'
/etc/init.d/setserial
/bin/setserial
/bin/setserial-BB
/var/packages/builtin_files/setserial
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/setserial

I also found this: https://www.makeuseof.com/connect-to-se ... -on-linux/
It's 5AM. Will follow this link when I'm properly awake. (A rare occurrence, but it can happen.)

Thank you.
собака

I think the Bionics also have 'picocom' installed by default. Anyways, mine all seem to have it ..

I've used PuTTY, I believe in Tahr 32. I'll have to check....

Yup, I've used PuTTY (ver 63.x) a lot in the recent past -- mainly for programming Arduinos, and yes it was in my Tahrpup 32 installation. It was installed from the Ubuntu Tahr repositories, so I don't have a .pet for it. But anyway, it worked quite well. Main slight difficulties (true of all terminal programs) were always just inputting the right port name and baud and bit requirements for the other device.

Just checked and the 70.x version is available on Bionic32. Same as Bionic 64. It's a simple 2 meg program.

I have also used PuTTY quite often to run headless Zoneminder servers. I have compiled PuTTY and created PET files for version 0.73 in 32 bit and 64 bit versions ->

putty-0.73-amd64.pet 64 bit

putty-0.73-i686.pet 32 bit

I have PET files for PuTTY 0.74 which I'll track down. But the version above should be adequate.

For anybody that uses WINE at all regularly, there's also a PuTTY-portable app.....available from PortableApps.com.

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable

Never actually tried to use it, but it fires up without any fuss. Remember; these portables don't 'install' to the WINE 'prefix'; instead, you run them from anywhere outside of WINE itself.

This is version 0.77, BTW. Many of these 'portables' work flawlessly under WINE. I'd be curious to hear if anybody has any luck with this one. (I'll be honest, I don't even know what PuTTY is or what it does. All I know is it's something to do with remote terminals.... )

Mike.

Hi Kobaka

Here my 2 cents:

Linux has the powerful screen program, with serial terminal included. As in:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linu ... baud-rate/

Hope it helps.

Regards

Pikaxhu