Tera Term Description

Tera Term is a versatile terminal emulator designed for Microsoft Windows that facilitates connections via serial ports, telnet, and SSH. In addition to its numerous functionalities, it features a built-in macro scripting language that is particularly useful for automating tasks associated with remote connections from a PC. This free software is capable of handling various communication types, including serial port connections and TCP/IP (telnet, SSH1, SSH2) connections, as well as offering capabilities such as log replaying, named pipe connections, and supporting IPv6. Furthermore, Tera Term provides emulation for VT100 along with selected VT200/300 and TEK4010 types, and it supports various file transfer protocols like Kermit, XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS, and Quick-VAN. It also accommodates scripts through the "Tera Term Language" and supports an array of character sets and encodings, including Japanese, English, Russian, Korean, and UTF-8, along with a message catalog available in multiple languages such as German, French, and Chinese. Overall, Tera Term stands out not only for its robust features but also for its ability to cater to a diverse set of user needs across different languages.

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Free Version:
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Company Details

Company:
Tera Term
Year Founded:
1997
Headquarters:
Japan
Website:
sourceforge.net/projects/tera-term/

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Product Details

Platforms
Windows
Types of Training
Training Docs
Customer Support
Online Support

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Tera Term User Reviews

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  • Name: Patrick F.
    Job Title: Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
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    Release 4.105 worked good

    Date: Dec 31 2022

    Summary: It worked for me to connect to serial devices, Arduino stuff.

    Positive: Met my needs.
    I was connecting to USB devices over serial terminal
    on Linux I used screen.
    This is sort of a hyperterminal.

    Negative: Lot of menus.

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  • Name: Ben D.
    Job Title: Design Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
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    The later version is not great on Win11

    Date: Mar 06 2025

    Summary: For com port operation, I suggest downloading an older version of this program such as 4.182, which works well.

    Positive: It is a good terminal program and I like it for terminal operation with COM ports. It is a good all round terminal application that is easy to use and reasonably robust.

    Negative: 1) Every time I start logging to file, the target folder defaults back to its preset path. That is annoying and the older versions did not do that.
    2) Setting the font size is seems buggy as size 7 is tiny small and cannot be read on the output screen but setting to size 8 is at super huge and cannot fit the screen width. This used to work beautifully on the older versions. Where even size 10 could be used for the same output and fitted.
    3) On Win11 it often seems becomes inoperative if the USB/COM cable is pulled out. It then has to be closed and restarted. The older versions seemed to just say "disconnected " and work again when the cable is reconnected.

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