After installing TinyTERM Plus or TERM Professional version 3.3 from the October 1998 CD, you may not see an option for the FTP Client, LPR Printing or NFS Server, though they should be installed. (NFS is only installed with TERM Professional.)

To resolve this, manually uninstall the current product and reboot. Next, install TERM Professional using the 30-day evaluation. Make sure that the correct components are check-marked.

We also suggest you change the TinyTERM install path. It defaults to C:\Program Files\Century. Change the path to C:\Century (delete Program Files).

Once installation is complete, run the License Manager and upgrade your license. You should now have FTP Client, LPR Printing and NFS Server.

The TinyTERM install program may ask for the drive the PC boots from, and will default to C:\. If you click OK, it will ask again, this time specifying C:\CONFIG.SYS. Every time you click OK, another CONFIG.SYS is added to the directory path.

When this happens, it means there is no CONFIG.SYS file on C:. TinyTERM does not do anything with the file, but the install will not proceed if it’s not there.

To bypass this, cancel the TinyTERM install. In the root of the C: drive, create an empty CONFIG.SYS file. Then start the TinyTERM install again. It will proceed normally.

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)

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.

The Century Software, Inc., End User License Agreement is available online in PDF form:

EULA

This error during a Windows install of TERM or TinyTERM always indicates a problem accessing the registry. You must have local PC administrator rights to install. Without that, TinyTERM will not install or run properly.

This error generally means the license is missing from the Windows registry. To add the license, click on Start | Programs | TinyTERM and run the License Manager. Click Upgrade to enter your serial number and activation key, then click Update License. Close the License Manager after this.

If you get the error, “This serial number and activation key have already been used,” check your Windows system clock. If the date is not correct, fixing it should fix the license error also.

If the License Manager does not help, and the system clock is correct, you will need to edit the registry as described in this entry.

This Windows error usually comes up after logging in. To get rid of it, go to Start | Programs | Startup. Delete the “Century Repair” icon there. You may need to delete it through:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

or its equivalent instead.

This error only happens on Windows PCs. It means the temporary directories are overloaded with InstallShield files.

To fix the problem, go to the temporary directories specified by the TEMP and TMP environment variables. Delete any directory in them that starts with _istmp. Empty the Recycle Bin. TinyTERM will install properly after that.