Connect to serial-port devices with a terminal emulation program.
ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh. In its day, many people used it to connect to Bulletin Board Systems and download files. Now we have the Internet. ZTerm is still a useful utility for those systems that offer only dial-up connections and for connecting to devices through a serial port, as do many routers. For newer Macs that don't have a normal serial port, ZTerm can talk to ports on USB to serial adapters, through the appropriate driver software supplied with the adapter. New features is version 1.1 include separate versions for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X and the addition of an appearance manager and navigation services. The OS X version gets a list of serial ports from IORegistry.
it didn't react to any keyboard input, didn't have a quit menu, disturbed keyboard behavior in other running apps
Freak'n Awesome
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Tested on OS 10.1.5 with Keyspan USA-19W USB to DB9 adaptor and it WORKED GREAT natively in X!!! Once I set modem option to serial adaptor, immediately connected to my Cisco router!! One less reason to ever go back to OS 9 :-)
me too
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OS 9.1 users should also be able to use it ...
pretty stupid to hide OS9 inside OS X file that OS9 users cannot open!
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(.dmg) image!??
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If you don't have OS X, this program is of little use. Why bother having OS 8/9 programs included in the package.
the best there is, unqualified.
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if all else fails, or you just want the best first, Z-term has no equals, nor betters.
Could not (remote-)work without it !
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and for MACOS < X ?
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and for MACOS < X ?
can't get at OS8/9 features
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The file is an OS X disk image (.dmg) that contains different versions for OS8/9 and OS X, but I don't have OS X!! So, how do I expand an OS X disk image in OS8/9 to get at the features in there? Stuffit 6.0.1 won't do it...