winXP Hyper terminal

Fatman · 09-25-08, 12:53 PM

Allright have an issue with Hyper terminal at work. I am using a US Robotics 33.6 and 56k modems to connect to one of our terminal servers. I have to go into the settings and change databits to 7 parity Even and stop bits 1. Connect using the session I setup with hyperterm and it reverts everything back to defaults. Get all screwed up characters on the screen. Now the funny thing. If I create a new session with all my settings I connect fine for awhile and then eventually it goes back to using default settings, so I have to create a new session.

I am running winxp with sp 3
Hyperterm 5.1

Has anyone encountered an issue like this before? And know of some kind of fix, or can recommend a free ware hyper terminal program?

lxl · 09-26-08, 12:06 AM

I switched to Putty as soon as it supported serial connection:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

If you still prefer HyperTerminal, you should upgrade to HyperTerminal PE:
http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html

PS: just found out that now you have to pay for it, it used to be Free, here you can download the last free version: 6.3
http://justin-goldberg.blogspot.com/...dition-63.html

Fatman · 09-26-08, 02:56 PM

Thank you! Going to go try this in a few minutes see if this fixes the issue. Yeah I checked the companies website and noticed they were charging for it now.

09-25-08, 12:53 PM	#1
Fatman Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 89	winXP Hyper terminal Allright have an issue with Hyper terminal at work. I am using a US Robotics 33.6 and 56k modems to connect to one of our terminal servers. I have to go into the settings and change databits to 7 parity Even and stop bits 1. Connect using the session I setup with hyperterm and it reverts everything back to defaults. Get all screwed up characters on the screen. Now the funny thing. If I create a new session with all my settings I connect fine for awhile and then eventually it goes back to using default settings, so I have to create a new session. I am running winxp with sp 3 Hyperterm 5.1 Has anyone encountered an issue like this before? And know of some kind of fix, or can recommend a free ware hyper terminal program?

09-26-08, 12:06 AM	#2
lxl Senior Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 756	I switched to Putty as soon as it supported serial connection: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ If you still prefer HyperTerminal, you should upgrade to HyperTerminal PE: http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html PS: just found out that now you have to pay for it, it used to be Free, here you can download the last free version: 6.3 http://justin-goldberg.blogspot.com/...dition-63.html Last edited by lxl; 09-26-08 at 12:24 AM.

09-26-08, 02:56 PM	#3
Fatman Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 89	Thank you! Going to go try this in a few minutes see if this fixes the issue. Yeah I checked the companies website and noticed they were charging for it now.