Meindert Sprang wrote:

Hyperterminal is crap...

Of course it is, it comes free with Windows. In the land of the blind a
one eyed terminal program is King. :)

Do a google search for TeraTerm and you get a no-nonsense always working
terminal program.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

Thanks for the reference, I'm surprised I have not found that (or its
Windows-CE version) before in my previous quests for terminal programs
for PCs and PDAs. I'm going to try it on Windows 2000 and a Pocket PC.
Have you used it on those?

As always the best way to pry knowledge out of the professionals is to
fumble around in their presence doing something the hard way.

Best of the Season to you Meindert! And thanks for your help here!

Jack

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