The complexites fine with me. However I need to know were to find these Hyperterminal equivalent programs in a default load of 64 bit Ubuntu 8. I have had a poke around in accessories and system but I don't see them.
minicom is commandline-only tool, it won't show up in the menu. Open a (gnome) terminal from the menu and type the following command: which minicom The "which" command tells you where an executable is found along the path variable that is currently defined in your terminal session. If it doesn't output anything (like "/usr/bin/minicom"), then it means that the executable is most likely not installed. You can install it by running the following command in the (gnome) terminal: sudo apt-get install minicom Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174