Dumb Terminal emulation

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Brad VanDyck

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Does anyone know where I can find a dumb terminal emulator?
I need to send and receive simple serial commands over a USB port after I specify baud rates, start/stop bits etc.
 


Not totally sure what you mean.

Cutecom?
Cutecom is a graphical serial terminal, like minicom.
It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a
terminal to talk to their devices. It features lineoriented interface
instead of character-oriented, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support
(requires the lrzsz package) and hexadecimal input and output among
other things.
It is written using the Qt library originally by Trolltech (www.trolltech.com).

GTKTerm?
gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with the serial port.

Its features :

* Serial port terminal window
* Serial port setup (speed, parity, bits, stopbits, flow control)
* Using the termios API
* Possible to send a file (only RAW data, no protocol)
* End of line delay while sending a file
* Special character wait before next line while sending a file
* Possible to toggle control lines manually (DTR, CTS)
* Also reads the state of control lines (RTS, CD, DSR, RI)

Author: Julien Schmitt <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://www.jls-info.com/julien/linux/
 
Does anyone know where I can find a dumb terminal emulator?
I need to send and receive simple serial commands over a USB port after I specify baud rates, start/stop bits etc.

I've used PuTTY for this to communicate with ham radio devices. I assume you are using a USB-to-serial adapter cable, right? In the PuTTy configuration, if I remember correctly, you have to address the port as /dev/USB0 and not /dev/S0 (a standard serial port). The default font is very small for me, but that can also be changed in the configuration.

BTW, the link shows Windows executables and source code for Linux, but you don't have to build from source. It should be available in your distro's repositories. The link also has documentation and another link to their FAQ.

Good luck!
 
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