putty command line tool

I am trying to find to find a terminal emulator I can run form the command line under windows.

what I will have is a windows box with 4 serial cables connected to some Cisco stuff. I have installed putty and the command line tool that comes with it 'plink' but can't see optios for a serial connection only ssh,raw and telnet !

Any help?

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ColbyG

TeraTerm

Silver Bullet

Make sure that you're using the latest version of PuTTy as that is what I use and the serial option is there.

aueddonline

Silver Bullet wrote: »

Make sure that you're using the latest version of PuTTy as that is what I use and the serial option is there.

It's there in the gui, but not from the cmd line

Silver Bullet

Never used plink until now

I wasn't able to start a serial connection with "plink -serial ..." but I was able to load a saved serial session with "plink -load "session-name"

aueddonline

Silver Bullet wrote: »

Never used plink until now

I wasn't able to start a serial connection with "plink -serial ..." but I was able to load a saved serial session with "plink -load "session-name"

snap, happy days!

kafifi13

Is it Putty connection manager or just Putty?

kafifi13

Ok so if it's there GUI then it won't work. What you need to do is run the actually putty.exe file. I have the same thing. I use the connection manager to pull up all of my saved nodes. I use this for telnet/ssh to all network devices where i work. But for serial connection i have a seperate shortcut on my desktop for the putty.exe file itself which isn't the gui. Not sure why they do this but it's the only way it will work.