Reasonable Hyperterminal Alternative [solved]

[Colin J. Raven]

Gentlemen (those BCc'd) and List;

Pursuant to this earlier request I was ultimately successful in locating 
a Windows XP Hyperterminal alternative that enabled me to connect to the 
serial port of a server, but *also* a client that allows ssh and telnet 
[shudder] sessions within the same interface.

The client in question is "IVT" written by a guy called Ruurd Beerstra, 
and can be obtained from:
http://home.planet.nl/~ruurdb/

Think of it as a tabbed interface for various connection protocols. For 
example at the present moment I have several sessions open in one 
instance of IVT:
Serial console connection to mail server
Telnet connection to ADSL router
ssh2 connection to NL datacenter box
ssh2 connection to US datacenter box

It's a highly decent (and FREE) client. Way WAY better than 
Hyperterminal and an excellent companion application to Putty. (Meaning 
sometimes you may care to use Putty for normal ssh connections, and at 
other times if you happen to have IVT open, start an ssh session in 
there to your server of choice)

I think there are one or two minor flaws in it, but nothing of note. I 
encourage everyone to download and try it - AND - send Ruud some 
feedback. I'd imagine that the more feedback he gets, the more he'll 
be motivated to continue improving on an already impressive piece of 
software.

Thanks for the advice and help everyone.

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Sat Dec 18 11:42:01 CET 2004
11:42AM  up 1 day, 17:32, 5 users, load averages: 1.38, 1.26, 1.19