Welcome to CuteCom

CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal, like minicom (or Hyperterminal on Windows, but I don't want to compare Cutecom to it, since Hyperterminal is really one of the worst applications I know).
It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices. It is free software and distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2, which can find in the file COPYING. It 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 ~/.qt/cutecomrc.

Features:

• 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 for Building:

• CuteCom 0.20.0: Qt 4, CMake >= 2.4.3
• CuteCom 0.14.2: Qt 3, qmake or CMake >= 2.4.3

Download:

Currently there are two current versions: 0.20.0 is the port of 0.14.2 from Qt3 to Qt4, beside that they have the same features.
Current version (using Qt4): cutecom-0.20.0.tar.gz, , March 12th, 2008
Current version (using Qt3): cutecom-0.14.2.tar.gz, , January 26th, 2007
(yes, it's really only 22kb). Now coming with the often requested "log to file feature" and now optionally CMake buildsystem !
Here is the complete Changelog.

You can also browse the cvs repository online.

Current state: stable
TODO :

• font selection via the context menu of the output view
• searching in the output view via context menu and Ctrl+F shortcut
• port to Qt4
• translations
  

• cutecom-0.14.1.tar.gz, , November 22nd, 2006
• cutecom-0.14.0.tar.gz, , July 16th, 2006
• cutecom-0.13.2.tar.gz, , June 9th, 2005
• cutecom-0.13.1.tar.gz, February 2nd, 2005
• cutecom-0.13.0.tar.gz, January 29th, 2005
• cutecom-0.12.0.tar.gz, November 09th, 2004
• cutecom-0.11.0.tar.gz, October 13th, 2004
• cutecom-0.10.2.tar.gz, October 10th, 2004
• cutecom-0.10.1.tar.gz, August 11th, 2004
• cutecom-0.10.0.tar.gz
• cutecom-0.0.8.tar.gz
• cutecom-0.0.7.tar.gz
• cutecom-0.0.6.tar.gz
• cutecom-0.0.5.tar.gz
• cutecom-0.0.4.tar.gz

Screenshot

At the top you can see the widgets where you can adjust the serial communication settings. Beneath this part there is the output view, where you can see everything the device sent back, also non-printable characters. And in the bottom part you can see the input area, with the input line to enter the commands, and the list featuring the history for the input line.

Currently CuteCom runs on Linux and FreeBSD, porting to other UNIX-like platforms should be easy, and porting to Windows shouldn't be really hard. Everything platformspecific should be in QCPPDialogImpl::setNewOptions(). Distributions welcome :-)

CuteCom was heavily inspired by Bray++ for Windows.

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