question about Putty

A reasonably powerful, free PuTTY alternative:

Extensive cut & paste facilities along with (probably too) many other features: many other protocols, drag & drop SCP, X server and so on.

I just found/loaded Realterm, which looks a lot more obvious than Putty. I don't have the gadget here at home, but I'll try that tomorrow.

Moba looks sort of complex. I'll try that if Realterm doesn't work for me.

Or I'll write my own in PowerBasic.

No. Putty comes with Plink, which will send files, but uses the command line, not a GUI. See:

If you need a GUI to do the sending, then I suggest using a different terminal emulator.

Incidentally, try right clicking the mouse on the Putty title bar for a list of useful functions. Unfortunately, none of them is how to send a text file.

Documentation? I don't read no stinkin documentation.

Realterm is quite good, but a little clumsy and overly complex for many tasks as I remember it (it's been many years since I used it). For Windows, I mainly use Tera Term. There are a few versions around, but you can get it from .

Putty is popular mainly as a ssh client for Windows - I have rarely seen it used for a serial terminal.

For a not-too-large file, you can open the file in notepad or wordpad, Ctrl-A Ctrl-C there, then go to the Putty window and paste it (right mouse button).

Of course that will cause problems when it is very big or when the receiving device cannot handle input at full rate. More advanced terminal emulators (as others pointed out) have facilities to upload files, slowdown after each character and/or line, etc.

Cheers

Click your right mouse button to paste characters /from/ the Clipboard onto PuTTY's screen. Use your left mouse button to highlight and copy character's from PuTTY's screen /into/ the Clipboard. The mouse click copy-and-paste behavior is verified by me to work in Windows. PuTTY's behavior outside of Windows (eg in Unix) is unknown to me.

Thank you,

Now that you mention it, I have a Putty question too. (Can I hijaak your thread temporarily?) :)

All I want in Putty is the ability to CLEAR SCREEN before I write one page. I've tried several terminal emulations and none of them seem to work the way I remember them. Admittedly, it's been a while... :)

I can HOME the cursor in any of several emulations. But short of writing a bunch of blank lines and then HOME, nothing else "works".

I almost can't believe I long for the days of Hazeltine & TeleVideo 925's. Ha!!

Ancient DOS file transfer joke noted. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Jeff Liebermann wrote on 11/16/2017 12:49 AM:

Are you sure? It has been a while but I'm pretty sure I've done exactly what John is asking for with Putty. It's nice because it runs on both Linux and Windows. He is not talking about transferring a file from one computer to the other, he wants to dump a file of commands through the serial port to the target to save typing.

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TT looks simple. Can it shoot a text file out the serial port?

I need to load 16 serial DACs, each with a pretty ugly Linux command

dac_load 1A 512 dac_load 1B 1023 etc

and I want to exercize various scenarios. Copying and pasting from an editor window would work just fine. I could do that in, say, two

Thanks; I'll try that.

Yes. Click 'File' then 'Send File' then select the file to send.

Cheers

I'm 93.281% sure that it can't be done. I tried it on my XP desktop with a 9600 baud serial connection to my Ubuntu box. I couldn't upload or send an ASCII text test file. I did some Googling and found the above article which addresses JL's question. However, I didn't have time to RTFM, so there's a possibility that I may have missed something.

Putty emulates either a vt100 or an ANSI terminal. Probably ANSI X.364. These use escape sequences to control the cursor and screen. To clear the screen, send: ESC[2J ESC is the escape character.

However, that's for a full screen terminal. If you're stuck with a line by line system, just send 25 line feed characters, which will clear the screen by pushing everything off the top of the screen.

I can't believe I can remember this junk from the stone age of computing. I used to make good money fixing Teletype machines, Wyse

This thread got me thinking about my own PuTTY habits on my field kit Vista "beater." Typically PuTTY and a FTDI RS-232 dongle are only used long enough to talk a console port into enabling sshd. Then cygwin ssh is used afterward for the remainder of the conversation. BSD tip is used in my lab. So, why not just use tip in both places? That way, you can focus on one serial comm app instead of two. You can also use cygwin dd to "shoot a local text file to the device."

Thank you,

It may not be suitable for a dumbish device but I use WinSCP

Then I can use a standard text editor on the Windows side (Notepad++) and not concern myself with vi, nano and other assorted editors on the remote side.

This is what happened when I tried the right-click paste text thing in Putty:

so I guess I'll try something else.