Palm as a VT terminal emulator? (1 Viewer)

[Todd Hochard]

I'm wondering if I can use a Palm to act as a VT-100 or VT-220 emulator to be able to "talk" to various controllers, in order to program them via their RS232 jacks.

Is this possible?

Todd

 

[Roy C.]

Todd,

I'm pretty sure you can. A friend of mine uses his Visor to connect to Cisco routers using Telnet and connecting via a custom made cable to go from hi-density connection on bottom of PDA to 9-pin RS232. I could probably ask him for more details or have him draw a pin-out diagram but it might not match your Palm. I almost tried to do the same on my Palm Vx but decided to wait until I get the M505 or the iPaq to control my Cisco hardware. Anyway, let me know.

Later,

Roy C.

 

[Todd Hochard]

I guess I shouldn't have asked if it's possible. It has to be. The Palm uses RS232 to talk to the PC through the HotSync cable.
I guess I just need to know how I can run this thing as a terminal.
Todd

 

[Greg Rakaska]

Palmgear lists 3 or 4 VT emulators, here is one that is free: http://www.palmgear.com/software/sho...123&prodID=552
If for some reason the link does not work, just put vt in their search box, that's how I found it. I haven't had need of one of these for a few years, but last time I used one was on a cabletron hub and it worked quite nicely.

 

[Todd Hochard]

Greg,

Excellent! I didn't even know that site existed. I'm assuming I can just use my HotSync cable to connect? I didn't find anything about it in the ReadMe for the software.

Todd

 

[Greg Rakaska]

Hopefully you do not have one of the new Palms with USB hotsync. Even then, I believe that you can get serial hotsync cables.

To connect to most equipment with the hot sync cable, you will probably need a null modem adapter.