Dear all,

I wanted to know the best free terminal emulation software in linux for following requirements

1] vt220
2] bidirectional printing support
3] facility for serial communication configuration

I am using puppy linux 5.2.8 and ubuntu 12.04
and rs 232 communication media

Please tell me any other information i have to give to get good result

Thanks & Regards
rohaan

What computer are you serially connected to? (Thirty years ago it would have been a very common situation, but nowadays most computers do have Ethernet interfaces.)

Dear sir,

thanks for rply actually i am trying to develop dumb terminal which will be connected to terminal server through the rs232 and this will be connected to main server with ethernet

i wanted to get connected to the terminal server and then want to get the print from the printer if file/data has been sent for the print direclty
the printer status is monitored so bidirectional printing is my requirement

Regards
rohaan

I use minicom under Slackware, probably avaliable for puppy, or you could build it easily enough.
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/

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Thanks for suggestion sir but i wanted to know that minicom does it provide bidirectional prinitng support? and auto download to printer if file/data is for printer?


Regards
rohaan

I have never used it for printing, but it is a full featured serial communications teminal program.

I am not entirely sure what you mean by bidirectional printing support.

bidirectional printing is all about

"Using the printer port to print may be useful if you don't have an extra port on your PC for a printer or for "point of sale" use in a store. "Transparent print mode" is where whatever the PC sends out to the terminal goes instead to the printer. If you want the printer to be able to send bytes to the PC (in the reverse direction) then (per Wyse) it's "bidirectional mode". The Wyse "auxiliary print mode" is just transparent print mode where the terminal screen monitors what's being printed."

thanks sir

rohaan

I do not think I can provide a reliable answer to your question.

Here is from the minicom man page on my system:

Beyond that, maybe you could go to the home page (link above) and post the question directly to them.

Good luck!

Dear sir,

thanks for the reply

Regards
rohaan

I to doubt that I can give you a reliable answer. Several years ago, maybe 8 or 9, I used a 4-port bi-directional addon card with my Slackware box. Most of the time I was hooking up custom hardware to the ports, and was able to use minicom to connect to them. On occasion I did need to write someother software, but that was generally not the case. Anyway, sounds like you are doing something that is fun. Good luck.

Coordially,

thanks for rply

regards
rohaan