Hyperterminal Equivalent in Dos?

Stephen J. Rush

2003-10-12 07:22:14 UTC

Post by Tagman
Hello -
Probably not the correct newsgroup, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction....
I have an old NEC Multispeed laptop dual floppy 8088 running DOS 3.2
I'm trying to run a dos application that communicates through the com port, but am unable to establish communications.
Is there an available shareware utility (similar to HyperTerminal) that I can run to diagnose the com port and try to solve my communications problems?

There used to be a bunch, such as Procomm. There were even some
written in GW-Basic. Look at the old archives, such as Simtel and
Garbo. If you have the original DOS disk set, there is probably a
comm program on the "utilities" or "extras" floppy.

You will also need the manual for your modem. A Web search for
"Hayes AT commands" will probably turn up something usable if you
don't have the manual. At least, on an 8088 system, you don't have a
{insert favorite profanity here} Winmodem.

You might also want to look at alt.msdos.batch; this group is supposed
to be about BASIC as implemented under DOS.

There are better DOS versions that will run on an 8088. DOS 5 came
with QBasic, which is easier to use than GW-Basic. DR-DOS 7 (see
www.drdos.org) used to be Novell DOS. I have it on an old 486, and it
ran every MS-DOS program I threw at it, including DOOM 2 and Windows
3.11.