This is normal behavior. To get TinyTERM 3.3 and earlier versions to erase when backspacing, go to the Configure menu and select Emulation. Check the “Backspace sends Delete” box there to cause backspace to erase characters.

With default settings, TinyTERM 3.2 does not appear to respond to serial connections. To get it to connect properly, you will need to edit the .tap connection file and change four lines:

• exitdtr=ON needs to change to OFF
• ddtr=ON needs to change to OFF
• dtr=OFF needs to change to ON
• rts=OFF needs to change to ON

Save the file after this. TinyTERM will connect properly after that.

If you try to install a 30-day eval from the October 1998 CD (TinyTERM 4.00), you get an invalid license error. The install then aborts.

You can install an evaluation copy of TERM Professional 3.3 from that CD. Browse the CD and go to the ttpro directory. Run the insttt32.exe program from there.

TinyTERM and TinyTERM Plus are normally licensed per installed seat. This means that a five-user license is valid for five installed PCs. It does not matter how many connections are made through TinyTERM on a single PC, only how many times it’s installed.

Per seat is the only licensing method for the following:

• TERM for Macintosh (discontinued), and
• TERM for Linux Desktop

All versions TinyTERM and TERM for DOS can be network installed with concurrent licensing. So can TinyTERM for Windows versions up to 3.2, and TERM for Windows versions up to 7.2. This involves installing most of the TinyTERM files to a network share, with only a few on the PC’s hard drive. A set number of users can then run TinyTERM simultaneously.

All versions of TinyTERM Thin Client, and TinyTERM Plus version 4.40 or higher, when installed in a terminal server environment, are also licensed for concurrent users. This means that a 40-user license will allow 40 users to run TinyTERM at a time. The 41^st user will get a message that all licenses are in use.

TinyTERM Web Server and TERM for UNIX/Linux are licensed per server. Any number of users up to the maximum the server supports may use these products simultaneously. TinyTERM Web Server does require that each user have the TinyTERM Web Server Client installed, unless the PC has a license for TinyTERM or TinyTERM Plus.

No Century Software, Inc., product is licensed per user. If only one person needs TinyTERM, for example, but needs it both on an office PC and a home PC, then a two-seat license must be purchased.

CR 256, request for concurrent network licensing in TinyTERM 4.x (not currently implemented)
CR 581, request for network install in TinyTERM 4.x (not currently implemented)

Some versions of TERM for UNIX, particularly prior to version 6.2.5b, can only read and write file names up to 14 characters long. This affects scripts, file transfer, log files, etc. The solution is to upgrade your version of TERM.

At this writing, TERM for AIX still exhibits the problem. The most current versions of TERM for all other operating systems do not have this restriction.

CR 70

When you go to TinyTERM’s Help menu and select “About,” it may show itself as “TinyTERM European Edition.” This does not mean you have the wrong product. The words “European Edition” are actually a holdover from TinyTERM 4.11, which was initially released in Europe.

“European Edition” was eventually removed from the Help | About dialog. Newer versions will just show “TinyTERM” there.

When run inside a browser, some of TinyTERM’s function keys will not work. In particular, combining the Alt key with a function key will be intercepted and used by the browser first.

When this happens, configure TinyTERM to run standalone, instead of in the browser. To do that, on the administrator copy go to the Edit menu and select Preferences. In the Preferences dialog, click the OLE Settings tab. On that tab, click the Display as stand alone helper application radio button. Click OK, then save the session.

Upload the new .tpx file to your web server. When it’s clicked by a user, TinyTERM will open in a separate window, rather than in the browser.

CR 378

TinyTERM Web Server Client includes no user interface, no way for the user to customize the keyboard. Instead, you need to create any custom keyboard configuration on the administrator PC, the one used to create the .tpx files. This will make changes to the C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\keyboard.dat file.

Once configured, the keyboard.dat file can be copied to your web server. Users can then download it to their own C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM directories, replacing the default file. That will make the custom keyboard mappings available to the .tpx files that need them.

TinyTERM Web Server Client version 4.20 will generate “Could not run CSL entry point: main” when run on Windows XP. It works properly on earlier versions of Windows. The only solution is to switch to a different version of TinyTERM Web Server Client.

CR 286, fixed in TinyTERM Web Server Client 4.21

If you put two or more shortcuts to TinyTERM in your Windows Startup group, only one will launch. You’ll see buttons for both on the taskbar, but one button will disappear.

Once all applications have finished loading, minimize all of them. The second TinyTERM window will then open. There is no workaround or patch for this behavior.

CR 324