Tera Term

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Tera Term is open source free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It emulates different types of terminals - from VT100 to VT382, supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial port connections, has built in Macro scripting language and few other useful plugins.

The first versions of Tera Term were created by T. Teranishi from Japan. Then development of Tera Term stopped in late 90's at version 2.3. In 2002 Ayera Technologies released TeraTerm Pro 3.1.3 supporting SSH2, however Ayera Technologies neither made their source open, nor was providing technical support.

In 2004 Yutaka Hirata, software designer from Japan, continued developing the open source version of TeraTerm. He added his own implementation of SSH2 and lots of new features on top of what was part of version 2.3. A complete list of them is published on TeraTerm Support forum.

To avoid confusion with version numbers and to indicate that TeraTerm developed by Yutaka is more recent than version 3.1.3 from Ayera Technologies, it was decided to give this branch of TeraTerm Professional version numbers starting 4.xx.

In January 2005, Boris Maisuradze together with Yutaka Hirata started TeraTerm Support forum where they answer the questions from TeraTerm users. This forum is also the way to suggest adding new features to TeraTerm or new commands to TeraTerm Macro language.

The latest versions of TeraTerm are compatible with OS Windows 98 and higher.