Calling all IT nerds... Need a terminal program that...

[Corbin Dallas]

Watch it there buddy. No smack talking about putty

Are you a putty developer? If so, what the heck man? No command line for serial? What's up there buddy?

I love putty, that was my first thought! Hell yea, Putty has command line, I'll use that...

WRONG!!!!

NO CL for Serial. How lame... What a great program, but lacks the most BASIC of needs for IT pros.....

[Corbin Dallas]

Sorry, terminate wont do. Too bloated with stuff that needs to be installed on each machine.

[Satex]

Are you a putty developer? If so, what the heck man? No command line for serial? What's up there buddy?

I love putty, that was my first thought! Hell yea, Putty has command line, I'll use that...

That was a sarcastic remark I made, I should have used the "" smiley. I just love putty, but I agree that it would have been nice if it had serial capability.

[Satex]

Are you a putty developer? If so, what the heck man? No command line for serial? What's up there buddy?

I love putty, that was my first thought! Hell yea, Putty has command line, I'll use that...

That was a sarcastic remark I made, I should have used the "" smiley. I just love putty, but I agree that it would have been nice if it had CL capability.

[greyfell]

I've always been able to use HyperTerm for that kind of crap.

Hyperterm is my suggestion, also. It's free, because it comes with Windows. Google AT commands, if you cannot find an old modem manual. These are what you will use to query the modem and give other commands to the modem. You setup your PC's connection to the modem, and before you tell the modem to dial ANYTHING, enter you AT commands to get the information from the modem you need.

[danito]

TuTTY has a serial backend patch.

plink might also be option. You can call a saved serial connection "plink -load "session-name" but you can not call the serial port directly "plink -serial"

[Corbin Dallas]

Hyperterm is my suggestion, also. It's free, because it comes with Windows. Google AT commands, if you cannot find an old modem manual. These are what you will use to query the modem and give other commands to the modem. You setup your PC's connection to the modem, and before you tell the modem to dial ANYTHING, enter you AT commands to get the information from the modem you need.

Again, HT does NOT support sending or receiving data from the command line.

I thought I made this clear in the beginning...

[greyfell]

Again, HT does NOT support sending or receiving data from the command line.

I thought I made this clear in the beginning...

You're right, Hyperterm will not work from the command line, but you never made clear why you have to work from the command line.

HT will do what you want, if you are able to open Windoze, and it is free. Why is it so important to work from the command line? Has the OS been so infected/corrupted that you can't start it?

[Corbin Dallas]

Seriously, not to be an ***, but did you even bother to read my first post?

MUST be able to send and receive info from command line, MUST be able to hit ANY com port on a PC (serialterm is limited to COM7 I think).

What I'm attempting to do:

Query a modem through the command line, get the data and parse it into a file for testing. I need to know what firmware is currently running on the modem card for a DUN connection.

Do I have to completely explain what I'm doing down to the batch file I've written?

Honestly, I hate doing this but I'm very familiar with HyperTerminal and Windoesn't. I think you might have gotten a clue when I referred to PuTTY not having CLI for the serial com ports.

Sorry for being an ***, but I thought I was pretty clear that I needed a terminal emulator program that will connect to a serial com port along with sending and receiving data via the CLI.

If I wanted to sit and TYPE AT commands to 1000 computers all day long, I would. But that defeats the purpose of testing 1000 PC's and modem cards doesn't it. I'd spend all 10 hours a day typing AT commands to query modems.

[greyfell]

You're right, Hyperterm will not work from the command line, but you never made clear why you have to work from the command line.

HT will do what you want, if you are able to open Windoze, and it is free. Why is it so important to work from the command line? Has the OS been so infected/corrupted that you can't start it?

However, to continue to beat a dead horse...have you checked out:

Serialterm - http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrech...nal/index.html

Realterm - http://realterm.sourceforge.net/

Tunnelier - http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier

[fd15k]

NO CL for Serial. How lame... What a great program, but lacks the most BASIC of needs for IT pros.....

Wow, good for morning laugh If only I could switch to Windows now, I can be a real IT pro

[Corbin Dallas]

However, to continue to beat a dead horse...have you checked out:

Serialterm - http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrech...nal/index.html

Realterm - http://realterm.sourceforge.net/

Tunnelier - http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier

Serialterm - Yes, but it does not look past COM6, so that won't work

Realterm - Currently checking out CLI for this

Tunnerlier - Just checked this out, unfortunatly this will not work because it has to install on the machine. I need an executeable program.

[Corbin Dallas]

Wow, good for morning laugh If only I could switch to Windows now, I can be a real IT pro

Hey, I don't make the rules, only play the game. Could you image if us IT people could change they way users actually USE their PC's? It would be a Linux world...

[fd15k]

Hey, I don't make the rules, only play the game. Could you image if us IT people could change they way users actually USE their PC's? It would be a Linux world...

Maybe also try this : http://www.shellguard.com/

It can be downloaded as an archive, and designed for the console use. Trial period might be enough for the problem you're trying to solve, so you won't have to buy it.

Their older version had a different name, "telneat", and was free... But didn't have serial support.

[bigmike82]

"but lacks the most BASIC of needs for IT pros..... "

Uhmm....this isn't a basic need.