Putty Xmodem

[BBradley2009]

I'm putting a new image on a switch and don't have access to Hyperterminal pay to use emulators. I'm using Putty and I'm not finding any Xmodem options with it. I know the other emulator that is popular is TeraTerm but when I go to the site to download it hasn't been updated since 1999??

Any suggestions on free emulator that supports xmodem?

Thx

Bb

[ZeroHunter]

I'm putting a new image on a switch and don't have access to Hyperterminal pay to use emulators. I'm using Putty and I'm not finding any Xmodem options with it. I know the other emulator that is popular is TeraTerm but when I go to the site to download it hasn't been updated since 1999??

Any suggestions on free emulator that supports xmodem?

Thx

Bb

I just did this over the weekend also, and I was not able to figure out how to do it with putty either, I ended up getting out an OLD laptop that has XP on it to use HyperTerminal.

My reason for saying this was that while doing that, I was wondering what I might do later when I dont have that laptop anymore, I was thinking I might use Virtual XP mode under Win7 next time, I have not done this yet but its just a thought.

[hypnotoad]

There are some free terminal programs out there that will do xmodem transfers, you just have to find them...beats looking around for hyperterminal.

[alan2308]

Teraterm

Tera Term Open Source Project

[wbosher]

The last time I accidentally blew away the IOS on an old switch and had to use xmodem, I just used Hyperterminal with WinXP. Does Windows 7 not have Hyperterminal? I've never seen it but was thinking about upgrading.

[ZeroHunter]

The last time I accidentally blew away the IOS on an old switch and had to use xmodem, I just used Hyperterminal with WinXP. Does Windows 7 not have Hyperterminal? I've never seen it but was thinking about upgrading.

Nope, Win7 does NOT have HyperTerminal, but you can install Microsoft Virtual Machine w/ Win XP Pro (free Download from MS) that does have it.

There of course are some basic hardware requirements, but pretty much if you have any dual core processor, you will be able to setup a basic XP Pro Virtual Box easily.

I have it running on several machines with no problems, the lowest machine its on is a Pentium 4 Dual Core and it runs just fine.

[BBradley2009]

I did find the newest site for TeraTerm and it does support XModem as well as ZModem. I also found a good article that says you can install Hyperterminal on WIN 7 if you have the XP disks.

All you need is the .dll file and .exe file from Hyperterminal and it will run on WIN 7.

Thanks for all the reply's!

HyperTerminal Alternatives for Windows 7

[johnwest43]

TeraTerm is all I use for both Cisco and for Linux. East to install and use.