Click the Windows "Start" button and select "Control Panel." Double-click "Add or Remove Programs."
Click the button labeled "Add/Remove Windows Components." This opens a list of available Windows components on the system.
Click the "Accessories and Utilities" option and then click "Details." In the details window, click "Communications." In this section, check the box labeled "HyperTerminal." Click "Next."
Click "Finish" when the installation completes. The HyperTerminal files will be reinstalled on the computer.
When you set all of your settings, go to file , save as, and save it to a known location (eg. desktop). Next time , double clock the icon, and there you go..
Hyperterminal is a useful little program that can be used to communicate directly with a modem, a serial port, to link two PCs together via serial ports etc. I use it to dial into our phone system at work and change settings because it can emulate the "Proper" stand alone terminal that's not accessible from home. Yes it will also do telnet but is not the actual Windows "Component" used when Windows needs a telnet client.
Typical settings:
Baud rate = speed at which data gets pushed or pulled down the wire.Parity 1/0 = an old form of data protection, in which an extra bit is added to the text being sent so that you can tell whether each byte was sent correctly.
Start and Stop bits = typically 1, 1 1/2, or 2 - because in the original setup for terminals, you had to compensate for a slow mechanical action by giving the terminal extra time to start and stop each byte in the pattern being sent.
Full/Half Duplex - The cheapest circuit was a single wire with an electrical ground at each end. But you can't transmit from both ends of a single wire at the same time, so the engineers developed "duplex" mode. In half duplex, you must tell your communications partner, "OK, your turn" when you are done. In FULL duplex, both sides have their own wire and therefore can transmit messages at the same time.
Data size: 7-bit or 8-bit. Old "teletype" terminals only had a limited number of printing characters. Seven data bits was often enough to represent everything that could be sent to a teletype. This is also the size of the data element in the code list called US-ASCII - United States version of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
If you don't know you'll never need to worry about it.
It is a telnet program for communicating with serial ported devices such as modems, routers and programmable hobby kits etc. It basically takes typed words and sends commands through a serial connection to a device to control or configure it.
If you are using the HyperTerminal supplied with Windows 98, you will find that local echo is not working properly even if "Echo typed characters locally" under Settings, ASCII Setup, ASCII Sending is checked. This has been fixed in HTPE. Please download and install the latest version.
If you have copied and pasted the number it can leave a space at the end and this will render the number "invalid". Either type the serial number in, or press the backspace key after pasting.
This usually means that your computer does not have a dial-up modem present. If you are sure that you do have a modem you probably need to either restart the computer, or re-install the modem drivers. In the case of a USB modem please ensure that it is still plugged in.
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HyperTerminal Private Edition
A more powerful version of Hilgraeve's HyperTerminal communications program