TinyTERM for Windows versions prior to 4.00 have an option to scale the font to the screen. This causes the font to resize automatically for a best fit in the current emulator window.

If this is turned off, the user can select the font size instead. This allows viewing only a portion of the screen at a time, but at a much larger size. Scrollbars allow the user to move left or right, up or down at will through the current screen.

This feature was removed in TinyTERM version 4.00. The customer-requested addition of the ability to add a background image to the emulator window required it. With a background image in place, using the horizontal scrollbar caused font display problems. So in TinyTERM version 4.x, the font automatically scales to the screen. There is no workaround.

TinyTERM and TERM on other operating systems rely on the OS to handle font sizing. There are no font size settings for DOS, UNIX, Linux, etc.

CR 29

TinyTERM version 4.20 will not reliably switch the number of columns from 80 to 132. There is no patch for this. The only solution is to use a different version of TinyTERM.

The TN5250 emulation included with TinyTERM Plus does not have the capability to set up print sessions. It can only print screen.

CR 34

In some cases, TinyTERM 4.20 will not properly display colors. To fix that, apply this patch.

To use it, locate the existing CenTE.ocx file in C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM. Rename that as a backup, then copy the patch into the same directory. The next time you start TinyTERM, it will be in effect.

CR 494, fixed in TinyTERM 4.31

This error means one of two things:

1. Your version of TinyTERM is too old for your version of Windows. The version of TAPI is therefore too new for TinyTERM to use. Upgrading TinyTERM is the only solution.
2. TinyTERM has a specific incompatibility with the modem. Update the modem drivers in this case.

If both TinyTERM and the modem drivers are up to date, you will need to dial the modem manually.

As a security feature, some host systems will allow you to login over a modem, then disconnect you and call you back at a predetermined phone number. Functionality to allow TinyTERM to answer the phone in this situation was added in version 4.30, in the form of the te.WaitForCall property. Setting it to true causes TinyTERM to wait for the currently selected modem to ring, then answers it:

te.WaitForCall=true;

This property allows you to set up an automated callback login. We have a sample script that does exactly that. It only requires editing for the correct telephone number and prompts.

CR 342, script
CR 399, capability
CR 455, duplicates CR 342

A TCP/IP connection creates a pseudo-tty device (ptty) on the fly at the host system. The numbers assigned to them are not stored, but are lost at disconnect. The specific ptty may change with each connection.

Some configurations may require that users login through specified ptty ports. SCO UNIX has a solution for this in the recon command. Similar commands may exist for other host operating systems, but they are not as well documented.

This error generally indicates a firewall is blocking TERM or TinyTERM from connecting via TCP/IP. To get rid of the error, configure the firewall to allow TERM or TinyTERM to connect without restrictions. The specifics will depend on how your firewall is configured.

CR 708, firewall handling improved in TinyTERM 4.50

TinyTERM 4.40 added an Extra Printers option to the File menu. With that capability, if you’re using SCOANSI emulation, you can select between up to six printers. Wyse60 allows up to three printers. No other emulation can take advantage of these for transparent printing.

Printer number 1 is still configured through the Printer Setup option on TinyTERM’s File menu. Printers 2 through 6 are configured through the Extra Printers submenu.

In either emulation, it’s based on the “print on” sequence sent by the host. The default “print on” sequences for each, the one used by TinyTERM’s File | Print Setup settings, are listed below. <Esc> is the escape character, ASCII 27:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[5i
Wyse60: <Esc>d0#

To access the extra printers, add two for each to the SCOANSI “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>[7i
Printer 3: <Esc>[9i
etc.

For Wyse60, only the first two extra printers are available, making three total. For each of those, just add one to the “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>d1#
Printer 3: <Esc>d2#

You can then use <Esc>d# to access the current printer in Wyse60, using the digit again only if you need to change the printer. If you haven’t selected a printer yet using any of the “print on” codes listed above, <Esc>d# will automatically select printer 1 as the default printer.

Regardless of which printer you use, the “print off” sequence is the same, based on the emulation:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[4i
Wyse60: ^T

That’s Ctrl-T, ASCII value 20, for Wyse60.

Each printer can have different settings, of course. So the host can select between multiple printers, or one printer with multiple settings.

CR 210, Wyse60
CR 580, SCOANSI

There may be too many spaces between lines. Or the lines will break in unexpected places. When this happens, turn off end of line wrap. You’ll find it in the terminal emulation setup part of TERM or TinyTERM. It may also be labeled EOL wrap.