Windows 7 Hyperterminal Alternative

[Gravy]

I need to be able to connect a digital production printer to my laptop via an RS232 connection and the last itme I did it I used Windows Hyperterminal.
I don't have that option on Windows 7 and being one that does not fully understand these things I wondered if there is an alternative function in Windows 7?
Any help on this would be extremely useful!

[TonyToniTone]

You could copy and hypertrm.* from xp or use putty

[TurricanII]

I would google and try using the free and widely used PuTTY

A note on connecting to serial ports:

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/C...

[lestag]

Gravy said:

I need to be able to connect a digital production printer to my laptop via an RS232 connection and the last itme I did it I used Windows Hyperterminal.
I don't have that option on Windows 7 and being one that does not fully understand these things I wondered if there is an alternative function in Windows 7?
Any help on this would be extremely useful!

putty
http://chrismeyer.org/wordpress/2009/12/windows-7-...

[Gravy]

I found a link to Putty after googling the problem but I must confess that I didn't really understand what to click when the page opened so I have used the hypertrm.dll file found on the 'net and it seems to have worked.