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Old 06-03-2011, 02:11 PM   #16
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Why Tera Term on Linux?


We are running multiple OS's, Windoze and Ubuntu, talking to Linux (red hat based) Ethernet Switch/Routers. For some things, we need the serial port interface. The switches are running a VERY stripped down version of 2.4.22 Red Hat, and the only editor is nano. GKterm, which comes with Ubuntu, sometimes gets lost in CR-LFs, and messes up the display making it dangerous to edit system/config files. It also does not have a logging function, only "raw file copy" of what is still in the buffer, and I don't know how to expand the buffer for long, overnight runs. It is too primitive to be set to emulate any particular terminal, like vt100.

Minicom traps CTRL-O for setup, which is exactly the same character that nano uses to save the edited file, big problem there. Logging is fine.

Putty seems harder to set up and control. And one program I used that everyone raved about once started could not be stopped, edited, changed, etc.

Tera Term has a great GUI, great logging, and does not interfere with ^O or CR-LFs even though it is going from Windoze to Linux. It has be far the best, easiest, must practical, and for our use most functional interface. But some operations on our little test network work better in Linux, like todays testing of NTP client and server config files. For that we NEED a good terminal emulator that will not hose the nano editor, will allow the editor to SAVE the edited file, and will log arbitrarily long terminal runs to any directory or device. I wish I knew of a Linux based serial port terminal emulator that acted just liek Tera Term, but I have yet to find one.

I have loaded Tera Term under wine, with no fonts problem (I skipped the LogTT editor, don't need anything THAT fancy). But when I connect to COM1, all I get is garbage. I do not know how to configure wine to port the ttyS0 through to COM1 and back so that Tera Term will work.

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Old 06-03-2011, 04:43 PM   #17
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The switches are running a VERY stripped down version of 2.4.22 Red Hat,
the 2.4 kernel -- that would be what the DEAD and buried RH9
if so it has been "DEAD and buried" for years
do not use it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also teraterm is from WINDOWS 98 era
and you want to run it in a windows7 world ?????
 
Old 06-06-2011, 04:59 PM   #18
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John,
Thank you for the very reasoned. response. It is quite clear that you have forgotten that 2.6 kernel take LOTS more RAM space and disk space than 2.4. The hardware we are running on is a network appliance, no need for gigbytes of RAM or terabytes of disk. It has less than 100Mbytes of RAM, and uses a 64Mbyte Compact flash for all file systems. If we were using what you recommend, it would fail to get half way through boot.

Who said that Windows 7 was an improvement? We are avoiding that here in the network lab as long as possible. It takes long enough to reconfigure the ehternet port(s) in XP, I shudder to think of how many layers I would have to bore down through the Windows 7, protect the user from the hardware, GUI before I could make a single manual IP address change. As for why 90's era Tera Term, point me to something better and free and I'll talk. Tera Term does everything I need, nothing I don't want or is unexpected, in short, a good fit. Why fix what isn't broken? And like I have said, I have tried MANY Linux compatible terminal emulators, and dislike or distrust them all for various reasons. Your symbols for beating my head against the wall is a perfect description of whait it would be like if I followed any of your suggestions. How prophetic?

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Old 06-06-2011, 06:22 PM   #19
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then port the code to your environment
 
Old 06-07-2011, 01:00 PM   #20
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Yep, that is what it comes down to. Find the time, port the code, and quit complaining. Or, get used to using CTRL-Right Click in PuTTY to get back to the command interface, and get used to not needing a GUI frame around a serial communication window to control external functions like logging.
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Old 06-07-2011, 05:48 PM   #21
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The Wikipedia page for tera term mentions that it has been re-developed. Have you tried these versions?
 
Old 12-24-2019, 02:58 AM   #22
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Angry why I want to install tera term vt in linux?

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Hmm, this begs the question: why do you want to install it? There are simply oodles of other terminal emulators all compiled and nicely packaged for you system already.

Evo2.
hello evo2,

I know that there are a myriad of vt's available for linux but I specifically need to install tera term vt because I'm working on a project where I have to publish sensor values on AWS via ethernet using MQTT protocol and my controller is STM32H743ZITx. And as per the manual of AWS package of ST Microelectronics, I have to send the client and server certificate files via serial communication using tera term vt only. I hope my reason is good enough for you to tell me how to install tera term vt in ubuntu 16.04 LTS (that is if you really know how to do so).

And with all due respect evo2, "why does one want to install tera term in linux" isn't a valid question on your part. As firmware engineers our requirement varies from project to project and we ask the questions based on our requirements itself. Nobody's stupid here.....everyone knows that there are lots of virtual terminal applications available other than tera term vt. So if you know the steps to install it then mention the necessary steps to do so and if you don't then refer someone else who does. Its really that simple. (*plonk*)

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