[Coco] Communicating with a Coco OS9 from a PC

George Ramsower georgera at gvtc.com
Fri Jul 10 00:48:55 EDT 2015


  When I had Windows XP, I could communicate with my Coco quite well by 
making a com port /t1 another access to the OS. I'm about to do this 
again with W-7. I somehow used the correct search terms and found this....

  I used HyperTerminal on the XP box to the Coco.....
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in windows7 by defalt  hyperterminal is not there ,but u can create

in win7,only option - open control pannel ,Open Phone and Modem Options 
by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Hardware

and Sound, and then clicking Phone and Modem Options.

or u can create hyperterminal in win 7

open any Xp system copy 4 follwing  files

1)-C:\Program Files\Windows NT\HYPERTRM.EXE
2-C:\Windows\Help\HYPERTRM.CHM
3-C:\Windows\Help\HYPERTRM.HLP
4-C:\Windows\System32\hypertrm.dll

then opwn win7 system create a folder name of  "HyperTerminal" under 
programe files then paste 4 files

create shotcut -"C:\Program Files\HyperTerminal\HYPERTRM.EXE"

open short cut hyperminial is redy
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  I found that here...

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/9a378d29-8185-4494-acbd-42dbd2ab1594/win-7-where-is-the-hyper-terminal-application?forum=ITCG

Shorter Version 
<https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/9a378d29-8185-4494-acbd-42dbd2ab1594/win-7-where-is-the-hyper-terminal-application?forum=ITCG>

  I'm going to try this later and let you know how it goes.

George R



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