PE micro terminal program escapes

[Kopone]

Hi,

I am using several Coldfire and S08 demo boards, they all come with the handy PE micro terminal application. I use that a lot since it doesnt require any additional cables.

However a lot if times I'd like to produce some kind of formatted output, say a table of variable states, that would require at least some basic kind of output formatting. E.g. move the cursor one line up or just to the home position (upper/left).

I tried several VT52 and VT100 codes, but to no avail. I checked the PE micro site, the docs and the forums there, but it seems that no one replies there to questions regarding the terminal app.

Now I was wondering, maybe someone here already figured either how to issue some cursor positioning codes or maybe how to hook up this USB serial thing they did there to any regular terminal program. (And yeah, i figured it interprets "\r" and "\n" correctly, but that gives me only one single line).

Regards, 

 Sven

[meterman]

You can use any terminal emulator software with the virtual USB port on the Coldfire boards.  What you need is a program com0com which creates two virtual com ports connected together with a null modem cable.   Run P&E Serial redirector on one of these virtual com ports, and then run a terminal emulator of your choice on the other one.  I like Putty as it does good terminal emulation, but you can have any serial port interface program you like.

[Kopone]

Hey, that sounds promising, but where do you find "P&E Serial redirector"?

It's not in the toolbox archives that came with my devboards nor can I find it for download on the P&E site?

Regards,

 Sven

[J2MEJediMaster]

I have has some luck with using ANSI-terminal mode. This mode is supported by Hypeterminal and some other terminal programs. A web page on the information can be found here.

---Tom

[Kopone]

Thanks Tom.

Well, sure I can get other terminal programs to interpret various ANSI/VT codes. But I can't connect them to the serial port that is somehow hidden within the USB connection of all the PE Micro demo boards.

It seems only the PE Micro terminal application can talk to this serial line. So the question is, HOW can I access this serial-over-usb port from the demo boards from within any other terminal program. OR does anyone know of any escape codes that can be used within the PE terminal application?

Regards,

 Sven