Tera Term is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. It supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial port connections. It also has a built in Macro scripting language and a few other useful plugins.
The first versions of Tera Term were created by T. Teranishi from Japan. At the time, it was one of the only freely available terminal emul...
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Tera Term is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. It supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial port connections. It also has a built in Macro scripting language and a few other useful plugins.
The first versions of Tera Term were created by T. Teranishi from Japan. At the time, it was one of the only freely available terminal emulators to effectively support the Japanese language. Development of Tera Term stopped in the late 1990s at version 2.3.
In October 2002 Ayera Technologies released TeraTerm Pro 3.1.3 supporting SSH2 and added multiple other features like a built-in web server for API integration with external systems, recurring "keep-alive" commands, and ODBC database support via the TT Macro Scripting Language. Ayera Technologies did not make their source open, but does provide limited technical support.
In 2004 Yutaka Hirata, a software designer from Japan,...
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