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I have Windows 8 Pro, and I don't have the HyperTerminal program installed by default.Additionally, I don't see any option to install it via Windows feature install. According to this post about HyperTerminal in Windows 8, you'll have to copy it over from a previous installation of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.If you have them from your Windows 7 machine, save them for Windows 8.
I need to do some communication between 8051 micro-controller and PC . There used to be a hyper terminal for this purpose in windows XP. I m using windows 8 now. So can anyone suggest me some equivalent of hyper terminal in windows 8 for the purpose of serial comm. between micro-controller and PC.
Rehan AbbasiRehan Abbasi
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$begingroup$PuTTY, surprisingly enough, can act as a full-featured serial terminal. It supports full-blown VT-102/VT-80 command codes too.
There is Termite, which is a very nice, no-installation 200K exe:
Parallax also has a nice serial terminal.
Connor WolfConnor Wolf
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$endgroup$$begingroup$HTerm is a gem!
I highly recommend you give it a try. While not being a pure terminal, it supports some nice features like (optional) concurrent display of Ascii, Hex, Dec and Bin. Its very straightforward to use and consists of a single exe file without any special dependencies.
I highly recommend you give it a try. While not being a pure terminal, it supports some nice features like (optional) concurrent display of Ascii, Hex, Dec and Bin. Its very straightforward to use and consists of a single exe file without any special dependencies.
I've used this on WinXP and Win7 without problems.
Rev1.0Rev1.0
$endgroup$$begingroup$I'll just add TeraTerm in and hTerm in case you're really going low-level, but mainly I use PuTTY.
Tom L.Tom L.
$endgroup$$begingroup$I use ScriptCommunicator. It has many features and a very useful script interface: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scriptcommunicator/
main window:
example script GUI:
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sziekeszieke
$endgroup$I like Terminal. It has a very easy to use interface, macro capability, and quick graphing tools.
Scott SeidmanScott Seidman
$endgroup$$begingroup$I generally use RealTerm. However I have had problems sometimes with it locking up in Windows 7, particularly with virtual COM ports like USB.
So I got a copy of HyperTerminal Private Edition, by Hilgraeve Inc. which is the company that wrote the original HyperTerminal for Microsoft. They indicate it works with Windows 7, 8, and Vista. As others have said, it isn't that great a terminal program but it was able to connect to a virtual COM port in Windows 7 on a development board that RealTerm was unable to.
tcrosleytcrosley
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