An easy-to-use terminal for communication with hardware connected to serial port
Edit by : CoolTerm is an easy-to-use terminal for communication with hardware connected to serial ports.

CoolTerm is a simple Serial Port Terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc.

The features of CoolTerm include:

- Capability of multiple concurrent connections if multiple serial ports are available.

- Display of received data in textual or hexadecimal format.

- Sending data via keypresses as well as a Send String dialog that support data entry in textual or hexadecimal format.

- Sending data via pasting of text into the terminal window.

- Sending of text files.

- Capability of recording received data to text files.

- Local echoing of transmitted data.

- Local echoing of received data (loop back to Sender).

- Hardware (CTS, DTR) and software flow control (XON).

- Optical line status indicators.

- Capability of manually toggling RTS and DTR signals when hardware flow control is disabled.

- Capability of loading and saving connection options.

NEW:
- Added Line Mode to the communication settings. In Line Mode a line of typed text will not be sent to the serial port until the Enter key is pressed.

- Added History which is available in Line Mode the up and down arrow keys can be used to select previously typed lines.

- Added a receive buffer size limit option.

- Added handling of the bell character (ASCII code 7), which can be enabled through the communication settings.

- It is now possible to open the communication settings and edit certain options while the serial port is open.

- The viewer mode (plain or Hex) is now saved as parameter in connection settings files.

- The size and position of terminal windows is now saved with connection settings.

- Fixed bug that converted occurrences CR+CR+LF strings to single spaces on Windows you can free download CoolTerm 1.2.0 now.