Up to nine sessions can be opened in a single TinyTERM window. By default you must use the mouse to select one of these sessions, either from the Session menu, or by clicking a session tab.

There are two ways to configure a key to switch sessions. Both are done through the keyboard editor. To open that, go to TinyTERM’s Edit menu and select Settings. Select the Keyboard tab, then click the Edit button to bring up the keyboard map.

1. Rotate between sessions
To map a key that will switch to the next session in order, click the Chart Open button. This brings up the Drag & Drop Tables.

On the right of the table are five buttons labeled F, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Click the F button to bring up the Keyboard Meta Functions.

In the function list, use the mouse to grab the NEXTSESS item. Drag and drop it onto the desired key. When this key is pressed, it will switch to the next session in the list, rotating back to the first session if the last is currently active.

2. Go to a particular session
You can also map a key to go to a specific session. Sessions are numbered internally from 0 up to 8, with session 0 being the first one opened. For this example, we’ll map the Alt+function keys to switch between two open sessions.

In the map, click the Alt key. Then click F1. The Keyname field will change to AF1. Change the Action field to COMMAND. In the Value field, enter this string:

 SwitchSess(0,0);

Click the Set button to make this active. This maps the first session (number 0) to Alt+F1.

Next, click the F2 key. The Alt key should remain clicked, so the Keyname will be AF2. Again change the Action to COMMAND, and enter this in the Value field:

 SwitchSess(1,0);

Click the Set button again. This maps the second session (number 1) to Alt+F2. This can be extended to as many as nine keys.

Once you finish mapping the desired keys , click the OK button to close the keyboard map. Back in Session Properties, click the Save As button to give the new keyboard scheme a name.

If you’ve used Alt keys as in the above example, click the Use Alt keys in emulation box. Otherwise, the keys will be used by Windows instead of TinyTERM. In particular, Alt+F4 will close TinyTERM.

Whether you’ve used Alt keys or not, click the Apply button to make the changes permanent. Then click OK to close the Session Properties.

From TinyTERM’s File menu, select Save Session. That will complete your new key configuration.

Once TinyTERM is installed, copying settings from another PC is easy. Connection settings are stored in files with the .tpx extension; e.g., default.tpx. On most versions of Windows, they are stored in the TinyTERM directory, normally C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM.

To transfer the connection settings, simply copy these files from the TinyTERM directory on one PC to the same directory on another PC. The next time you start TinyTERM, go to the File menu and select Open Session. The new .tpx files will be available immediately.

On Windows Vista or Windows 7, .tpx files often get saved in the LocalStore directory instead. That path is:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM

where <username>is the name of the user currently logged in. These files may still be copied to the TinyTERM directory on another PC, regardless of the version of Windows it’s running.

If you have custom keyboards, colors or other settings that aren’t directly related to the connection itself, those are stored in four files: attr.dat, codepage.dat, keyboard.dat and login.dat. More information on sharing those configurations is in this Knowledge Base entry.

You can also import .tpx files directly into TinyTERM ITX and TinyTERM for iPad. Instructions for that are in the online documentation for each product:

• TinyTERM for Mac
• TinyTERM Enterprise for Android
• TinyTERM for iPad

TinyTERM for Mac can also export configurations to a .tpx file. These files can be shared with other TinyTERM installations. Instructions for exporting the files are available here.

TinyTERM for iPad and TinyTERM ITX both include PCTERM emulation. However, it fails when scancodes are required.

This is due to the lack of a Windows keyboard interface. Scancodes are generated automatically by Windows keyboards, but are not used in most other operating systems. So on non-Windows platforms, the scancodes are not available.

CR 929

Century Software has had a report that TinyTERM for iPad hangs when attempting a connection via VPN. We have not been able to duplicate this in TinyTERM version 1.2. The original report is as follows:

“Enable and connect the iPad VPN. Then connect to a host system through TinyTERM. It will tend to lock up, no connection visible. Once in a while it will connect and work properly, but generally it will lock up at connection time and stay that way. Closing TinyTERM is the only option.”

CR 928

TinyTERM for Windows allows the user to select between block and underscore cursors. It can also have the cursor blink or remain solid. Century Software has received a request to add these options to TinyTERM for iPad.

CR 926

TinyTERM for iPad includes a capsKey option for its keyboard, which can be used to create a “Caps Lock” key. There is no equivalent for the shiftTo option, which would allow the function or keypad keys to remain on screen until the shift key was pressed again.

A shiftLock option was added in TinyTERM version 1.2.0. Documentation was also added to the keyboard reference.

CR 925, added in version 1.2.0

TinyTERM and TERM for UNIX/Linux all use IPv4, regardless of the platform. Century Software has had a request to add Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support to our products.

CR 923

TinyTERM for iPad allows a telnet connection to port 25, common when connecting to a mail server. The connection is successful, but no data is displayed. This also affects HTTP servers running on port 80.

CR 921

TinyTERM for Windows allows users to enable or disable display of text attributes set by the host. For example, blinking text can be turned off, have its color changed, etc.

Neither TinyTERM for iPad nor TinyTERM ITX has this capability, other than providing an alternate color option for bold text. Century Software has had a request to add this capability for all text attributes.

CR 919

TinyTERM for iPad originally did not include a Caps Lock key. That functionality was added in version 1.1.1.

There is a workaround for earlier versions. While using a custom keyboard layout, hold down the right Shift key, then hold the left Shift key for a second. This will lock the keyboard in Shift state. To turn off this shift lock, hide the keyboard, then restore it by tapping the screen once.

CR 915, added in version 1.1.1