Any Terminal emulation program that works with Max-FORTH, or IsoMax requires the following configurations,

- Character Pacing. Each time the terminal sends a character, it must wait for the target system echos back with the same character before the next char can be sent from the terminal. This way the Target system will not miss any character. To simulate this on the Hyperterminal (PC), the character delay option must use but the response time from the target system is different depending on the compiling process from line to line. Therefore you must play with the delay time. So chance is you can download with the Hyperterminal but it is slow.

- Line Pacing. A CR (character return) is required at the end of each line. When the terminal sends CR, the target system will echo back with CRLF (carriage return). This means the terminal will receive back the CR and along with the LF and it must advance to the next line before it can send a new character.

Hope this help. Sorry, i do not know any terminal program that works with FORTH running on Linux system.