Serial communication terminal alternatives for windows

Question

I'm looking for a winxp terminal tool that will send/receive raw bytes, not just printable ASCII like the hyperterminal that ships with winxp does. Preferably open-source.

Answer 1

As mentioned here, realterm does the trick.

Answer 2

I think COMTester isn't open source but it's a very convenient tool.

Answer 3

I don't understand the motivation behind the question. Do you need a serial port debugging tool or a full-fledged terminal with support for international characters?

For the first case, the tools suggested by Nicj D and fakeleft will do the job.

For the second case you might want to look into TeraTerm or PuTTY, which have support for Telnet, SSH and serial port connections.

Answer 4

ZOC Terminal has extensive trace features (it can show hex dumps, control characters and binary logs).