Re: [amsat-bb] Terminal Emulators

["Ken Waters" <kwaters@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clive,

Try HyperTerminal, which is standard on Win 95/98.  It's a pretty poor
excuse for a terminal program, but at least it will do what you need.
You'll find it under Start Button-Programs-Accessories-Hyperterminal.

It is pretty easy to write a comm program in Visual Basic using the MSComm
library.

Hope this helps.

73, Ken/N4PBY

----- Original Message -----
From: Clive Wallis <clivew@zetnet.co.uk>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:25 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Terminal Emulators


 > Some time ago I recall that we had a discussion about these.  I have
 > recently had an enquiry from some one who needs a terminal program to
 > run under Windows 95/8. At the time two programs were suggested
 > EASYCOMM and ICOMTR.
 >
 > I have tried to find EASYCOMM, but the URL which was suggested ie.
 > www.shareware.com, doesn't work.  Searching the web has come up with
 > a lot of references, but no software!  There are a lot of references
 > to WISP, but I can't find the actual program.  Is it incorporated inside
WISP?
 >
 > I've downloaded ICOMTR, but that appears to need an ICOM receiver to
 > be attached to the port before it will work.
 >
 > What I need is something which will display the ASCII characters on a
 > serial line with a minimal hardware configuration, ie. just RXD & GND
 > connected to the port.  Must work with Win98.
 >
 > The TERMINAL program in Win3.1 works OK, but isn't included in Win98
 > (not sure about Win95)
 >
 > At the time of the original discussion someone also suggested writing
 > a simple program in QBASIC, but this appears to have been dropped in
 > Win98.  Does VISUAL BASIC contain suitable commands for easy access
 > to the COM port? Or do I need Visual C?
 >
 > Any help will be much appreciated.
 >
 >
 > --
 > 73
 >
 > Clive    G3CWV
 >
 >          Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, UK.
 >
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