One other problem I came across with Hyperterminal was that it was
generating a background log file that eventually filled my hard drive!
No way to turn it off - just a manual delete every  month or so. (I was
doing a fair bit of live RS232 monitoring at the time)

It seems to be version specific though as I haven't noticed it recently
since an upgrade to Win2000. But, then, I don't use it much now anyway as I
use "Terminal" instead.

RP



> >>Herbert you've been lucky up to now. On the few occations I've
> >>used it I've wasted a lot of time tracking down bugs in my software
>  >>which were actually bugs in hyperterminal.
>
> >         Like what?
>
> I've downloaded the newest and I I've used the one's that came with
> Windows (95 - 2K). The problem I see a lot is lock ups. Sometimes it
> works one moment then I make a change it it's locked up (serial access
> only). I've gotten in the habit that if I make a change in Hyperterm
> I save it, exit Hyperterm and restart. Others in my lab have similar
> experiences. I prefer to use Tera Term (although I can only get
> serial 1 - 4 which isn't much of a problem).


        I don't know what to say. I've been using it for years and I can
honestly
say that it has never crashed/hung on me. TTYL

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