This terminal emulator is available for most major platforms, and supports secure operations when remote systems support SSH or Telnet/SSL. SecureCRT supports character attributes and control sequences of VT100 terminals. However, if the system to which the VT100 terminal emulator remotely accesses does not support secure protocols, SecureCRT supports Telnet and Rlogin (Windows only). SecureCRT supports SSH1 and SSH2 (and Telnet/SSL for Windows applications) as well as allows establishing a secure connection via data tunneling. No matter which operating system your local machine is running, SecureCRT supports remote access, terminal emulation, and the host of session management features to make work more efficient. VanDyke Software's VT100 terminal emulator is available for most major platforms- Windows, Mac, and Linux.
VanDyke Software works with VTTEST to ensure that SecureCRT correctly emulates VT100 terminals.
SecureCRT supports VT100 capabilities and character attributes as well as open standard Secure Shell to ensure data security during terminal emulation sessions. If you prefer to use Minicom, you could still use the AppleScript to wrap it into a nice launchable app - use this older hint to find the right command line commands.SecureCRT is one of the industry's leading VT100 terminal emulators.
If anyone can reply with a link to a tutorial on how to wrap an interactive Unix App in Cocoa, that would be the next step - it would be nice to do this without involving Terminal. man screen will show you further commands to send to a screen session.
If you fail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the screen session manually. So type Control-A followed by Control-\ to exit your screen session. Screen uses Control-A to take commands directed to it. You may also need to customize the screen command with a different device name if you are using something other than the Keyspan Serial Adapter (do an ls tty* of the /dev/ directory to get the right name). You may want to customize this slightly - you can change the screen colors or number of columns or rows. Set custom title of window 1 to "SerialOut"Ĭompile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have a double-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session. Set normal text color of window 1 to "green" Set background color of window 1 to "black" Solution: Use screen, Terminal, and a little AppleScripting.įirst, launch Script Editor and type/paste in the following code:ĭo script with command "screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1"
Minicom requires installation of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex.It is not worth the shareware fee in its current form.
The developer doesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. It hasn't been updated in five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a Keyspan Serial Adapter to get access.