Tera Term

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Tera Term

Original author(s)	Takashi Teranishi
Developer(s)	Tera Term Project
Initial release	1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Stable release	5.3[1]  / 8 September 2024
Repository	github.com/TeraTermProject/teraterm
Written in	C and C++ (originally Pascal)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Terminal emulator
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	teratermproject.github.io/index-en.html

Tera Term (alternatively TeraTerm) is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of computer 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 (supporting Oniguruma regular expressions) and a few other useful plugins.