Configure a TN3270 session, and set the type to 3278-5 (27×132). The bottom of the screen has a green line across it, with cursor position numbers below that at right.

Connect to a host after configuring this. The line and cursor numbers duplicate above themselves every time you switch screens. It makes tiers of them.

CR 971, fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.7.1

Some hosts will send an eight-bit character or control sequence to a terminal emulation that is historically seven-bit. When this happens, characters draw incorrectly, screen position goes awry, and in general the display can become unreadable.

TinyTERM for Windows has an option on the Session tab of the settings to Ignore Graphics/Parity Bit. This causes all incoming characters to be read as seven-bit ASCII, fixing the display problems.

TinyTERM ITX has no such setting on Mac or Linux. This option was added to TinyTERM for iPad 1.2.4 and TinyTERM ITX for iPhone 1.0.1.

CR 963

Every time a session is saved, TinyTERM stores the current hostname or IP address in the .tpx file. If the hostname is changed, both the previous and current address are stored. These can be accessed from a drop-down list on the Sessiontab of TinyTERM’s settings.

To remove this history list, open the .tpx file in a text editor. Search it for the line that starts:

node=

Delete all the addresses that should no longer be stored.

Century Software has received a request for a user interface option that will remove those extra addresses.

Cr 962

Currently TinyTERM ITX for iPhone or iPad can only use a barcode scanner that acts as a Bluetooth keyboard wedge. Century Software has had a request for TinyTERM ITX to use the onboard camera in the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad 2 as a barcode scanner.

CR 961

In TinyTERM ITX for iPhone, generate an SSH key. When that finishes, select the option to email the public key. After the email has finished sending, it returns automatically to TinyTERM ITX. But the title bar is missing and with it, the Settings button that allows you to move back a screen. You have to close TinyTERM ITX and reopen it to get that title bar back.

CR 960, fixed in TinyTERM ITX for iPhone 1.0.1

On iOS 3.x, TinyTERM for iPad versions 1.2.0-1.2.2 do not display the function keys when using the standard iPad keyboard. This happens whether or not an external keyboard is used. Custom keyboards in TinyTERM are not affected. This is related to the view clipping API, which changed in iOS 4.x.

Cr 951, fixed in TinyTERM for iPad 1.2.3

When making an SSL connection with TN3270 emulation, the status line at the bottom of the TinyTERM window shows the message, “Connected = no connection.” This is cosmetic. The connection works normally.

CR 949, fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.7.0

When making an SSH connection using username/password authentication in TinyTERM for iPad 1.2.1, the app hangs and the keyboard disappears after entering the password. This does not affect public key authentication.

This is tied to challenge-response authentication on the host. If that is enabled, then the connection hangs.

The best fix is to update TinyTERM for iPad. Version 1.2.2 resolves this issue. If you do not wish to update, disabling challenge-response authentication will also prevent the error. To do that, search for this line in the host’s /etc/ssh/sshd_config file:

ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

It may be commented out with the # symbol. If so, remove that symbol and change yes to no:

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

Restart the SSHD daemon on the host after making this change. The connection will work properly at that point.

CR 946

In TinyTERM for iPad versions 1.2.0 and 1.2.1, SCOANSI emulation does not draw all lines properly. This is specific to graphics drawn with extended ASCII characters, not the characters drawn with alternate font sets. There is no TinyTERM setting that will change this.

CR 945

TinyTERM for iPad 1.2.0, released on August 3, 2011, will give the message “Error reading public key” on some SSH connections. This is due to a bug in the switch that controls public key authentication. That switch state doesn’t get properly saved if you hit the Done button instead of Connect.

We have a workaround which will fix the problem. Go to TinyTERM’s Configure menu and select your connection. Tap the Manage SSH Keys button. In the resulting screen, turn on the Use public key switch. Hit the Back button. Tap Manage SSH Keys again and turn off public key. Hit Back again, then hit Connect. TinyTERM will connect using password authentication.

You can also work around this problem by disabling RSA authentication on the server. To disable RSA on the host, go to its /etc/ssh directory and edit the sshd_config file. Look for the following two lines:

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes

Change “yes” to “no” on each line. The lines may also be commented out with the # character. If so, remove it from the beginning of the line when making the change. Restart the SSH daemon after making the change.

TinyTERM for iPad version 1.2.1 has been uploaded as well. It became available on August 8. It fixes that switch, and adds in an authentication search for SSH. If the initial authentication fails, it will try the next method made available by the server, and so on, until all available methods have been tried.