Technical information

Serial Solutions Cterm
port, the Baud rate, the number of data bits, the number of stop
bits and the parity.
F10 Quit. This immediately exits the program.
ALT-C (That is ’C’ and the ’ALT’ key pressed together).
CTERM prompts the user for a command. The user can enter a
command together with any parameters that it requires. These
are the same commands found in the definition files, and control
the way that the terminal functions.
Translations.____________
Cterm has the ability to translate any characters read from
the serial port or the keyboard to a sequence of zero, one or
more characters. See the chapter "Terminal Emulators" for more
detail. Note the following though. When Cterm translates
characters received form the serial port it uses a null character
(value 0) to mark the end of the sequence. This means that a
null cannot be included as part of an input translation. Since null
cannot be displayed this does not greatly matter for general use,
but when sending and receiving files with translations nulls will
disappear. If this is a problem do not use translations. Nulls can
be included in output translations and can be transmitted with
the T command.
Get And Put Files.________________
Cterm contains two extra commands for complete file
transfers. These are the ’g’ (for ’get’) and ’u’ (for ’put’)
commands. Both have the same operands:
<filename>[ n][<char>]
<filename> is the name of the file to be read or written. It can
contain a full drive and path specification, but if it does not the
default drive and directory are assumed.
n is an optional switch which disables translations during the
transfer. The n can be either in upper or lower case.
<char> is an optional character, specified as a decimal integer or
as a character in quotation marks, which is used as an end of
file character. Do not use an end of file character if the data to
be transferred is binary rather than text, because it could contain
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