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HyperTerminal is a program that you can use to connect to other
computers, Telnet sites, bulletin
board systems (BBSs), online services,
and host computers, using either your
modem, a null modem cable or Ethernet
connection.
But My main usage of Hyperterminal is to communicate with hardware through local (virtual )COM ports. I suppose it is removed in Vista for some reason.
Are there any other tools that functions similar to Hyperterminal?
[I am curious to know even if it is not for vista]
PuTTY can do serial communication nowdays.
Here are two:
Tera Term
Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on.
Kermit 95
Kermit 95: Internet and serial communications for Microsoft Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT (4.0 and later), Windows 2000, Windows XP, and IBM OS/2 from the Kermit Project at Columbia University, offers you text-based terminal connections to Unix, VMS, and many other kinds of hosts, allowing you to interact directly with their shells and applications, to transfer files, and, if desired, to automate interactions and file transfers with its built-in platform- and transport-independent scripting language.
I had the same problem trying to connect to an RFID device over RS323/serial and found SerialMonitor.
There are two links to that application. A free version that I found here (and that's the one I used and it works with Vista):
http://www.softhypermarket.com/Free-Serial-Port-Monitor-download_29681.html
But if you follow the email address to the main site, there are a couple of versions of the tool. They aren't free, but they seem to have more features than the one I used.
http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Products/home/serial-monitor.html
Hope that helps.
Here is a better tool specificaly designed to test serial devices: http://www.caerustech.com/UDT.php . You can save settings and commands for various devices - I use it often at work.
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I wrote a windows program many years ago, which created music by sending notes to the "midi mapper" (and thence to the midi-synth on my sound-card)
Today, I have a soft-synth which, allegedly accepts midi information, so I'd assume it should be possible to use today's equivalent of a midi-mapper to route the midi output from my program to the soft-synth.
There's clearly no longer a midi-mapper application in windows, but my program still works (on XP) in that it drives the built-in soundcard synth, so there must be some sort of midi handling layer in windows. How can I get at this? And maybe redirect the midi to the soft-synth?
The default MIDI device can be set in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices. If your soft-synth is registered as a MIDI device, you should be able to see it in the dropdown.
AFAIK most modern MIDI software now does its own MIDI routing from one device to another. Windows XP is limited in the number of MIDI devices it can support, and the MIDI software industry is gradually moving towards an all-USB model now.
In the USB model, many hardware controllers (such as this one) are "class-compliant", so you don't even need a special software driver to make them work.
For technical programming documentation about MIDI in Windows, this might be a good starting point.
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I'd like to send/receive data over a USB port to a device (from my vista pc). Is there a free/cheap library out there that can do this, and how involved would this project be (not taking into account what's being sent or received) ?
You don't specify what's going on here. Does the device already exist? Is it already a USB device?
If you already have a USB device, then the manufacturer should be able to help.
If you are building the device, then you might want to look at something like a USB to serial adapter (which generally require no special drivers at all) or something from FTDI - they make a number of easy-to-use USB chips that generally don't need, or come with appropriate drivers under windows. I've worked with their chips on a couple of occasions and they've never given me any trouble.
libusb-win32 maybe?
This article in Code project may be a good start for you. At first you need to build your device. You can either use a micro-controller with a USB port or you can use a serial-to-USB chipset (like the already suggested FTDI).
You should avoid writing your own USB library-driver. The article in the CodeProject uses the HDI driver, which is already present in your device. It uses a PIC micro-controller, but my personal favourite is AVR. With AVR you have the following options:
AVR-USB: Implements USB stack in firmware. Drivers, examples for all platforms. Any AVR micro can be used. You may need to build the hardware yourself.
Atmel's USB family. These are microcontrollers with USB port. Drivers and ready to buy kits are available. Other manufacturers (like Microchip's PIC family) have similar solutions.
Without knowing anything else about your situation, and assuming you are in control of the device's USB protocol and drivers, I would recommend using WinUSB.
It is a lot better than libusb-win32 because it is a native part of Windows and it supports asynchronous communication. Also, libusb-win32 only supports the libusb-0.1 API, which is really old.
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I am mostly interested in developing for windows (primary) and a mac.
I have a normal PC and a mac mini, and I want to be able to use a single keyboard, mouse and a monitor with both.
Which kvm software do you recommend?
I was looking for hardware kvms but I am using a 30" lcd which is only supported by 1 belkin kvm and people report it as not working.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Synergy is a software based KVM. It might take you some time to get it set up, but once you do, you'll love it.
In your case, I think the best software solution is to physically connect the Mac to the monitor, and using Remote Desktop to connect to the PC. You'll have very little display lag and almost zero input lag, compared to VNC.
As an added benefit, you can resize your Remote Desktop window to sit side-by-side with a window on your Mac, so you won't lose context when switching between Mac & Windows.
The only downside is that you'll have to crawl under the desk and swap the DVI cable if the Windows machine fails to boot when something goes wrong. That said, at my office we have a test machine that we've been using exclusively via Remote Desktop/VNC for about 3 or 4 years.
Every machine I use is running in a VM. I connect to the Windows machines via Remote Desktop, and I connect to the Linux machines via the VMware Remote Console.
I use VMWare in spaces, but if I had two boxes like you had I'd use a remote desktop connection.
If what you want is to have one monitor for two machines, then you probably need to either use a hardware DVI switch, or use a VNC/Remote Deskop client to pop in to the other desktop when you need to get there.
Personally, I have a 3 monitor, two machine setup. My main box has 2 monitors, the mouse, and the keyboard. The other box has the third monitor. As mentioned above, I use Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse between machines. In general it works very well.
Keyboard switching hotkey is Scroll Lock twice then up arrow.
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I've just listened to episode 6 of StackOverflow podcast, and I just wonder, is there a free and good enough implementation of Mac Spaces for Windows?
try Dexpo
from their website
With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications.
Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Using Dexpot, you'll considerably increase your workflow.
Try the Microsoft Sysinternals Desktops, it offers 4 virtual desktops.
No there isn't, at least not for XP. It's hard because xp wasn't designed with that in mind, while Mac and Linux handle it beautifully.
The best one for XP that I have found is VirtualWin, which just works by hiding windows. It's hacky, but at least it gets the main idea down. I think if you've got an accelerated desktop like vista, VDM might be worth a look. But since I don't have vista, I can't be sure.
Microsoft has a Virtual Desktop Manager PowerToy. Not nearly as good as the ones on Linux & OSX, though.
Dexpot is the best i've found for options and functionality, however the free version comes with some trashware in the installer, if you just install the pro trial and then tear down the free version installer with 7zip and copy the program files in to the program directory - it works like a champ however - No trashware.
Try not to break your computer doing this.
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Can the built in VPN client "Connect to Workplace" in Vista home connect to a Cisco router?
Are there any other Cisco compatible clients? I love vpnc, but it only runs under Linux or Cygrin on Windows.
As others have mentioned the built in windows VPN client will not work however the Cisco VPN Client is a bit rubbish, the main gripe is it doesn't work on 64bit windows but even on 32bit windows I used to have many troubles trying to get it to connect.
I would instead reccomend using the Shrew Soft VPN Client, its simple, free, open source and it works.
http://www.shrew.net/download
I don't believe that you can use the built in VPN client to connect to a Cisco router. At least I haven't found a way to do it yet.
Unfortunately you pretty much have to run Cisco's proprietary VPN client. Thankfully nowadays it's not too bad at all. I had horrible trouble with it a few years back but now it seems pretty stable on both Windows and MacOSX.
(I'm talking about the Cisco PIX VPN client FWIW)
You can use the built-in Windows VPN client (xp & Vista) but there are a few caveats with setting it up. I have done this both on PIX and ASA devices using an additional RADIUS server to handle the authentication of VPN users against active directory.
Whether it is possible for you will depend on the model of the Cisco router you have...
Also, as feoh states, Cisco also provides there own VPN Client - current Version 5 is available for 32-bit Windows Vista. The AnyConnect client they provide is also pretty good. However both of these are for Cisco registered customers only.
F.
Cisco VPN devices generally all support ipsec; while more difficult to setup, it is a standard, and your client choices should thus be pretty wide.