Terminal Emulator App. for PPC?

[AllyCat]

Hi,

I am planning to purchase a serial cable primarily to connect my Acer N30 to Garmin GPS76. However, I am inclined to get a full (9-pin) serial cable (presumably with RTS/CTS handshake capability) for the Acer, to use with a normal Garmin PC cable. Then I can also use the PPC as a general purpose Terminal Emulator (similar to "Hyperterminal" on the PC).

But, are there any Terminal Emulator applications (preferably freeware :-) ) available for the PPC? If not, then maybe I should just get a simple (RXD/TXD), cable which would be cheaper and more compact for portable use with the GPS.

Thanks, particularly if you can point me in the direction of a PPC Terminal Emulator program.

Alan.
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Garmin GPS72H/76/60/45, Etrex H, Mapsource v6.5.
Acer N50,HP114,Loox N560,Dell x50,CF/SD cards to 4/32GB.
RoyalTek,Holux236,Navman B10 & Copilot(Globalsat) BT GPS,TomTom5/6.
Memory Map (v5.4.2 & v5.1.3 OS & Euro), GPS gate,OSGPSconverter.

[lbendlin]

PockeTTY is good, but not freeware.
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Lutz

Report Map Errors here:
TomTom/TeleAtlas NAVTEQ

[AllyCat]

Hi,

Thanks very much Lutz. Perhaps rather "overkill" for my needs, but $15 for the Lite version seems reasonable, although VAT then gets added :-(

Can someone from PC-Mobile please confirm that the Acer N30 (and their serial cable) does indeed support hardware (RTS/CTS) handshaking. Otherwise I may as well just get their simple RXD/TXD interface cable (which appears to use a stero jack plug coupling ?)

Cheers, Alan.
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Garmin GPS72H/76/60/45, Etrex H, Mapsource v6.5.
Acer N50,HP114,Loox N560,Dell x50,CF/SD cards to 4/32GB.
RoyalTek,Holux236,Navman B10 & Copilot(Globalsat) BT GPS,TomTom5/6.
Memory Map (v5.4.2 & v5.1.3 OS & Euro), GPS gate,OSGPSconverter.

[Pc-Mobile]

Acer n30 has a full RS232 serial interface.
So yes the Acer serial cable supports RTS/CTS.
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Pc-Mobile
http://pc-mobile.net/gps.htm

[Gnist]

Hi there

I am soldering a cable to connect my sailplane data logging GPS to my n30.

I have stumbled because I can´t find info on which pins on the n30 are the serial RxD and TxD pins. Can anyone supply me these?

Best regards
Max

[AllyCat]

Hi Max,

Personally, I bought and recommend a cable from Pc-Mobile.net who give good service at reasonable prices (a simple RXD/TXD cable looks to be less than 17 Euros or full RS232 with power input about 25 Euros, delivered).

However, I have measured the cable using a continuity tester and scalpel (pointed knife) with the following results. I don't know how the connector is numbered so have counted the pins from *Right to Left*, viewing the Acer from the front (i.e. looking at the screen normally).

Earth (DB9 pin 5) to Acer pins 1 and 3
RXD (DB9 pin 2) to Acer pin 7
TXD (DB9 pin 3) to Acer pin 11.

However, the pins are very small so I don't absolutely guarantee to have counted correctly; you make any connections at your own risk!

Cheers, Alan.
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Garmin GPS72H/76/60/45, Etrex H, Mapsource v6.5.
Acer N50,HP114,Loox N560,Dell x50,CF/SD cards to 4/32GB.
RoyalTek,Holux236,Navman B10 & Copilot(Globalsat) BT GPS,TomTom5/6.
Memory Map (v5.4.2 & v5.1.3 OS & Euro), GPS gate,OSGPSconverter.

[Gnist]

Well cheers mate!

Thanks for the info. On a second though, your recommendation about Pc-Mobile.net might also be worth a look. But at first I´ll try out a little soldering

Best regards and thanks for the fast reply
Max Abildgaard

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