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Terminal Emulator for Macs

 

I have Mac computers and have not been able to find a Terminal Emulator to communicate with my QDX. ?Can someone offer a suggestion where I might find the program I need for my MacBook Air?

73 de Ray
K2ULR
FN20kg
 

Hi Ray,? I use 'Serial' when communicating with my QDX and QMX radios.? Do note, though, you have to use 'Ctrl-delete' to get the backspace mentioned in the documentation for the QDX and QMX.? Other than that it is perfect.

Let me know if you need any more info.

73, N4TVC, Randy
 

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Ray,

Look at this:

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On 9/23/2023 12:59 PM, Ray Sills via groups.io wrote:

I have Mac computers and have not been able to find a Terminal Emulator to communicate with my QDX. ?Can someone offer a suggestion where I might find the program I need for my MacBook Air?

73 de RayLook
K2ULR
FN20kg
 

I use screen (/usr/bin/screen) on terminal, like:

$ screen -fn /dev/cu.usbmodem??????

You need to find the device file name of your transceiver. -fn switch is there to disable flow control, since control + Q is used at least in QMX menu.

This way I did not have to install anything new.
 

I also use screen on the Mac, but I must admit I didn't know about the -fn option to turn off the Xon/Xoff flow-control, so thanks so much for that tip Ryuji!? I could never send Ctrl-Q so I was constantly powering down my QXM to reset the menus back to the start!

Possibly worth including this tip in the manual for accessing terminal features for Mac users?

73,
Dav M0WDV


On Sun, 24 Sept 2023 at 06:52, Ryuji Suzuki AB1WX <ab1wx@...> wrote:

I use screen (/usr/bin/screen) on terminal, like:

$ screen -fn /dev/cu.usbmodem??????

You need to find the device file name of your transceiver. -fn switch is there to disable flow control, since control + Q is used at least in QMX menu.

This way I did not have to install anything new.
 

"screen" works fine on the Mac.? But, do a "man screen" to (a) see all the command line
switches and (b) to see all the key bindings to be able to get to the QDX's terminal emulator's
command set.

Cheers -

Bruce K1FFX
 

Hi Bruce:

That's a great help...I've had no idea what the commands were. ?I know "man"... but then, I don't know what page to call.

73 de Ray
K2ULR
 

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 08:44 AM, Ray Sills wrote:

That's a great help...I've had no idea what the commands were. ?I know "man"... but then, I don't know what page to call.

Try "man -k keyword" to look up all commands that contain keyword in their headline description... Not exactly googling experience but there's very little fake news there. Ones that are in section one of the man (indicated by "(1)" after the name) are commands, so -S 1 can be given to narrow search to just that section, but that switch does not seem to work on Monterey... not sure if it ever did in recent macos versions.
 

$ apropos terminal?

That will list lots of stuff related to the terminal concept, including screen(1).

73
-tim
N7TDB
 

Or in Terminal, screen /dev/tty.usbmodem14201

ctrl Q does not work directly, but ctrl A, then Q works just fine.?
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73, Dan? NM3A
 

Dan, what it takes is to figure out a way to disable flow control in your terminal emulator software (xon/xoff not the hardware flow control on physical RS-232 lines). In case of screen command, use -fn. See the past posts on this thread.
 

Hi Ray,

You can use Putty on a Mac, although installing it it's a bit tricky (involves the usage of macports). For all interactions with my QDX I'd used screen with good results insofar.

73 de Pedro, LU7DZ
 

Ryuji,
Yes, I read that ?Just trying to help those who couldn't figure out how to get back to the previous menu .


73, Dan? NM3A

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