TERM for Linux 6.28 gives either a segmentation fault or “unknown service family” when connecting via telnet. This is corrected with separate builds for the different Linux distros. Here are the download links:

Debian
SUSE
Red Hat Enterprise

One of these should work for any current Linux distro.

CR 585, segmentation fault
CR 606, unknown service family

Run the following script command in TERM for Linux:

setkey sf1 “text”

No matter how it’s actually mapped, Shift-F1 does nothing. The same is true all the way through Shift-F12. Ctrl-function keys also fail, as do Ctrl+Shift and Alt keys. You can see this by running:

term -z ktest.cmd

In fact, Shift-F5 displays as “sf1” using that script. Shift-F8 is “sf4” and nothing past that works at all.

This also affects TERM for SCO UNIX versions 6.2.5b and 6.28 running on SCO 5.0.6 or higher. SCO maintenance pack 2 for SCO OpenServer 6 restores the system console to ANSI, instead of the default AT386. This fixes the problem on that particular OS.

CR 565

When running TERM as a background process with the -q command-line option for quiet mode, the Linux log fills with “EOF error on console” messages. This does not happen consistently across releases of TERM or distros of Linux.

CR 498

TERM for Linux 6.27 and later versions include an RPM install file. TERM 6.2.5b for Linux did not.

The RPM install does not work on every version of Linux. For those that don’t accept such files, Century Software, Inc., has created kernel-specific installs.

CR 470, RPM
CR 706, non-RPM

Century Software, Inc., has had several requests for an Xwindows version of TERM for Linux. Some customers are interested in a graphical interface for TERM for either the Gnome or KDE environment.

Century Software, Inc., has no plans for such a product at this time.

CR 131

Open a reasonable-size file in vi, one that has more than a couple screens of information. Move partway through, then put the cursor in the middle of the screen. Type “dd” or Shift-J to delete a line. You get a Dr. Watson in tt.exe, stack overflow error.

If the file doesn’t take up a full screen of emulation, you won’t get a Dr. Watson error. However, the entire screen will scroll deleting a single line.

If you don’t delete lines, but just scroll down through the file, you can’t scroll back up. And the status line scrolls with the file text as well.

This affects all VT-series emulations. The scrolling problem affects the Linux emulation as well.

CR 458, Dr. Watson
CR 459, scrolling
both fixed in TinyTERM 4.31

TERM 6.28 allows a 30-day evaluation install. This is only available for SCO UNIX or Linux. You can get a copy of the evaluation from our download page.

CR 454

Hex value 9B is a valid Control Sequence Introducer (CSI) for the Linux console. TinyTERM’s Linux emulation only recognizes \033[ as a CSI. So when it receives 9B, TinyTERM displays it instead of treating it properly.

CR 420, fixed in TinyTERM 4.40

Using TERM for Linux 6.2.5b, the function keys work properly at the console. However, if TERM is run through an xterm window in any window manager, the function keys fail. This is fixed in TERM 6.28.

CR 419

TERM for Linux 6.2.5b will not transfer files on any system using the Linux 2.4 kernel. This was fixed in TERM for Linux 6.28.

CR 389