> Proprietary and closed-source apps are a dead end. In the long run it > would be better if you looked into the open source and/or actively > developed alternatives. Not only may you find replacements whose > source +1 > could potentially be included in Haiku (license permitting and if > needed/desired), but you would also give much deserved encouragement > to > those devs doing application development for an emerging platform > like > Haiku. A few examples: > > * Niue IDE for BeOS/Haiku (http://www.bebits.com/app/4540) > Developed by Tako Lansbergen (aka "0033") > Screenshots: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tako0033/Niue/niue2.png > This is actively developed and open source. Hmm he must have been sick the day he took the screenshot :D Using non-fixed width font for code editting... bleh. As I said we can port minicom or another CLI terminal emulator and just write a small launcher to replace Serial Connect. François.