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I am currently using putty and Tera Term VT for connecting to external devices over serial port for bugging. Is there any alternative for OS X?

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    MAC is a commonly used networking term, short for "Media Access Control". Perhaps you mean "Mac"? Jan 15, 2012 at 18:14

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There are a couple of solutions available.

My preference is the ZOC Terminal Emulator.

It is commercial, but also available for Windows and MacOS also. It does serial connections, also SSH and Telnet, rsh ... quite like Putty.

screenshot of ZOC

Other serial alternatives for the Mac would be zTerm and iTerm.

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The best aqua app I've seen is CoolTerm. You can also do it with minicom or screen.

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I'm not familiar with serial ports, but you should be able use the built in Terminal app which is provided by Apple (search for it with spotlight).

It's a very good terminal client, my personal favourite by far on any platform.

You need to use the screen command inside Terminal, but beyond that I'm not sure how it's used.

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Mini tutorial for screen

screen is a command line app and distributed with macOS. You can use it in a Terminal window. Typical usage:

  • Launch Terminal.app
  • Using the command line, find the serial port for your device, e.g. ls /dev/cu*
  • Also using the command line, launch screen, e.g. screen /dev/cu.usbserial-DN06C8VG 115200

Of course, substitute in the correct serial device and baud rate for your needs. And to get out:

  • ^a^\ (that's Control-A Control-backslash)
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  • Thank you! best solution without any external software :)
    – Vitaliy A
    Jan 24, 2021 at 10:59
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There is picocom. A quick google found binary for 10.6

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  • Please consider adding more information, e.g. where you found this.
    – Daniel Beck
    Jul 14, 2012 at 15:45

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