When making an RS232 serial connection in TinyTERM 4.20, you will need to set all three flow control options in most cases. To do that, go to the Edit menu and select Session Properties. Next to the COM port is a Setup button. Click that to get to the flow control options. Make sure all three are checked, then save the settings.

CR 257, fixed in TinyTERM 4.21

From TinyTERM’s Tools menu, select the Edit Text File option. It may come up empty, or with only a list of directories.

To list the files in the current directory, type an asterisk * in the File name line, then click Open or hit Enter. The files in the current directory will then list.

If your install media is damaged or missing, you may be able to download a replacement. Contact our support department at 801-268-3088 x5 or support@centurysoftware.com.

Century Software, Inc., does not provide replacement media for unsupported products.

This error is the result of a bug in TinyTERM 4.11. The only solution is to use a different version of TinyTERM.

If your PC has more than one LPT (parallel) port, you can select any of them in TinyTERM. However, TinyTERM version 4.10 will not recognize the change until you save the session, then exit and restart TinyTERM.

There is no patch to fix this behavior. The only solution is to use a newer version of TinyTERM.

On Windows 95, 98 or Me, the currently active window can lose focus when the LPD server receives a print request. The server has to have focus briefly to initiate the print job, especially if it’s the first LPD request received since Windows was started, but it doesn’t always return focus properly.

When this happens, create a new icon in the Startup group of your Start menu. Link the to C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\NetUtils\marlpd32.exe. Change the directory as appropriate, but make sure marlpd32.exe is loaded from your Startup group. That’s the application taking focus, so if it’s started with Windows, you shouldn’t see your main window lose focus again.

The LPD Server in Century Internet Services will sometimes hang when you add a printer. There is no patch for this. But you can just kill the process from Task Manager. The printer will still be added.

Century Internet Services includes an LPD (line printer daemon) server. However, it only runs on Windows 3.1 or higher. In TinyTERM 4.x, it only runs on Windows 95, 98 and Me.

To put a Century LPD Server on Windows NT 4, 2000, XP or Vista, you will need TinyTERM Plus 4.30 or higher. No prior release includes an LPD server.

CR 293

If you need to print to a Windows network printer from TinyTERM, but for whatever reason can’t select the printer, you can print directly to the device instead. Configure TinyTERM to print “Direct to device” or select DEVICE from the drop-down list. For the file or device name, enter:

\server\printer

Replace “server” with the name of the Windows print server. Replace “printer” with the share name for the desired printer. You may need to contact your system administrator to get those names. Most Windows network printers will accept this configuration.

For printers that will not, you may be able to capture the printer to an LPT port. Instructions for this are on Microsoft’s website. By operating system, the links are:

• Windows 95, 98 and Me
• Windows NT and 2000
• Windows XP, 2003 and Vista
  

When you minimize TinyTERM, then bring it back up after working in another application, the right side of the screen may have a different color than the rest of the window. That is a cosmetic issue in TinyTERM. The different color comes from the difference between the actual window size, and the amount of space the font actually fills. If 80 columns don’t take up the full width of the window, the rest is filled in the default background color.

The workaround is to adjust the TinyTERM window size so the font width exactly fills the window, then save the settings. There is no patch.