xt - A Simple Terminal Emulator Program

History

One of the most basic needs when working in the embedded control industry is to comunicate with target processors.

After migrating to Linux from MS-DOS, we searched in vain for a simple, light-weight terminal emulator program. Such a program is necessary to talk to target processors through the RS-232 ports commonly available in PC hosts. xt was developed to satisfy this need and was derived from miniterm.c written by Sven Goldt.

Features

xt's main features are:

small size and simple design
portable to most Unix systems
supports up to 115200 bps
can be used with other Unix tools like expect and tee.

It should also be noted that xt performs special processing on some input characters before sending them to the serial port:

DEL is mapped to BACKSPACE
NEWLINE is mapped to CARRIAGE RETURN
xt exits upon receiving ESC or EOF
xt sends a line break upon receiving ^B

Source

You can find the source, makefile and man page here.

How to install xt

Download the tarfile: xt.tgz from our ftp site
Untar this file with:
```
    tar xzf xt.tgz
```
Get a root shell and enter into the xt directory
Type
```
    make install
```
The makefile will compile and copy the executable in usr/local/bin and the /man page in /usr/local/man/man1.

Feedback

We offer this project in the hopes that someone will find it useful. We welcome any comments, questions, requests, or bug reports you may have regarding this project. Please feel free to contact us via email.