The best and fastest solution to have a solid terminal emulation product that is free on Mac OS X Leopard is to just use minicom.

sudo port install minicom

sudo minicom -s

Configure minicom to your liking. If you need to find you device to configure minicom with just run

ls /dev | grep tty.*

tty.usbserial

Add /dev/tty.usbserial to the modem line in the configuration. Save the config as default and select exit

2 Responses to “Terminal Emulation on Mac OS X Leopard”

  1. JD Says:
    So what is this used for? Doesn't Mac already have a terminal?
  2. Ben Allen Says:
    JD, it's for example if you have a serial connection to a network device, you can use Minicom instead of ZTerm.

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