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CuteCom 0.22.0


CuteCom An open source graphical serial terminal

System Requirememts
Mac OS X
Download Details
Company Alexander Neundorf
Version 0.22.0
Post Date October 12, 2009
License GPL
File Size 22 KB
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CuteCom 0.22.0


An open source graphical serial terminal
CuteCom is a free and open source graphical serial terminal, like minicom (or Hyperterminal on Windows). Currently it runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.

CuteCom is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.

CuteCom is written using the Qt library by Trolltech. Follow this link to visit the sourceforge project page.

CuteCom doesn't use the autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool, etc.) Instead "configure" is simply a wrapper script which calls qmake.

To uninstall CuteCom simply delete the file "cutecom" and the file "cutecom.desktop" and you're done. The config file is ~/.config/CuteCom/CuteCom.conf (was ~/.qt/cutecomrc in the Qt3-based versions).


Main features of CuteCom:

  • easy to use GUI
  • no cryptic keyboard shortcuts
  • lineoriented interface instead of character-oriented
  • Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+S control sequences work
  • input history
  • a cute GUI ;-)
  • xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support (requires the sz tools)
  • easy to differentiate between typed text and echoed text
  • select between read/write, read-only and write-only open mode
  • open the device without changing its settings
  • hexadecimal input and output
  • configurable line end characters (LF, CR, LFCR)
  • configurable delay between characters


    Requirements of CuteCom:

  • Qt 4.1 or later
  • CMake 2.4.3 or later


    What's New in This Release:

  • CuteCom now also works on Mac OS X, patch by Oliver Klauke
  • support for more baudrates
  • install man page to /share/man/man1 instead to /man/man1 (seems to be more standard conform)
  • require Qt >= 4.1.0 (0.21.0 required 4.3)