> btw. when you use Python, your code could easily be ported to
> another OS...

Surprise surprise, I am not the only Python proponent!

As for a terminal program: my XWisp software has a very simple TTY
emulator, that can be used independent of the main function of XWisp
(driving my programmer). XWisp is written in Python, and it is portable
to a lot of OS'es. A problem is that access to serial ports is by itself
not portable, but there is a Python library that hides the non-portable
aspects (I did not make it, but a copy comes with XWisP). But on windoze
you need the Python Win32 extensions to let it work.

Wouter van Ooijen

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