When setting up a modem connection in TERM or TinyTERM, do not use any country or area code options offered by the operating system. Instead, enter the entire phone number just as you would dial it from a standard telephone. For example, if it’s long distance in the United States, include the leading 1 and area code.

You can use dashes to separate the numbers for readability, but they are not required. To add a two-second pause, such as you might need when dialing 9 to get an outside number, enter a comma in the phone number:

9,1-801-268-3088

CR 89, country code usage added to TinyTERM 4.20

Using self-created floppies of the TinyTERM 3.3 install on Windows 3.1, you may be unable to setup TCP/IP afterward. This generally happens when the TCP/IP or network utilities options were deselected during the install. You will need to uninstall the current install, reboot the system and reinstall. Make sure you select both TCP/IP and network utilities on the reinstall.

This error does not come from the terminal emulator. Instead, it comes from the server. It means all the available TCP ports are in use. It may also point to a network problem on the host system. Contact support for the host system for more information.

When you connect via direct serial cable, you may see incorrect, but readable, text instead of a login prompt. This generally happens when a process is still running on the serial port, which is usually caused by closing the emulator before logging out. The cause can be human error, power loss or something else.

To fix the problem, if possible get to a system prompt and log out. Otherwise, you’ll need to kill the process from the server itself, rather than from your workstation. Once the process has ended, you’ll see a login prompt the next time you connect.

In TinyTERM 3.3, modem settings require specific steps to save properly:

1. Go to the Configure menu and select Communications.
2. Enter a name for the connection in the box entitled “Network Node or IP Address.” Make sure the name has no spaces or punctuation characters.
3. From Port Selection list, highlight MODEM.
4. Click on the Modem button to the right.
5. Enter the phone number without any spaces.
6. Select the correct modem.
7. Click on Configure Modem and set the maximum speed of the modem to match the host system you’ll be calling.
8. Click on OK three times to go back to the main TinyTERM screen.
9. From the File menu, select Save ICONect.

You should now be able to connect to the host, and the connection should be saved.

With default settings, TinyTERM 3.2 does not appear to respond to serial connections. To get it to connect properly, you will need to edit the .tap connection file and change four lines:

• exitdtr=ON needs to change to OFF
• ddtr=ON needs to change to OFF
• dtr=OFF needs to change to ON
• rts=OFF needs to change to ON

Save the file after this. TinyTERM will connect properly after that.

You may find yourself in a situation where several PCs will need to share a single external modem. This can be accomplished with a serial port “swap box,” a device that selects between multiple input lines and one output.

Each PC is plugged into a switched input line. The modem is connected to the output line. When a user needs the modem, he simply sets the selector for his PC after making sure no one else is using it.

Like the 10022 Invalid Argument error, this message means TinyTERM is being blocked by a firewall. Error 10013 usually indicates that the tt.exe program is specifically blocked.

To get rid of the error, change the firewall configuration so that tt.exe is no longer blocked. Set it to be exempt or always allowed instead.

If you do not save a username and password in the Session Properties of TinyTERM Plus, it will pop up a dialog box requesting them when you connect. However, if TinyTERM is configured to save settings on exit, or if you click Yes when asked to save the session, TinyTERM saves the login information automatically.

In TinyTERM Plus versions prior to 4.31, this will happen even if TinyTERM Plus is configured never to save settings on exit. This bug was fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.31.

To prevent this in TinyTERM Plus 4.31 and higher versions, go to TinyTERM Plus’ Edit menu and select Preferences. Under Save settings on exit, select the Never radio button. You can also choose the Protect all settings option, which will prevent any changes from being saved as long as it is set.

CR 479, fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.31
CR 640

TinyTERM versions through 4.50 are hard-coded to use COM1 through COM6. While it’s possible to have more serial ports on a Windows PC, those versions of TinyTERM won’t be able to use them.

TinyTERM versions 4.52 and higher have no hard-coded serial ports. Instead, they request a list of available ports from Windows. Note that ports currently in use by other applications are not considered available. So the “Available devices” list in TinyTERM may not reflect all installed serial ports.

Regardless of the version of TinyTERM, COM ports above COM9 are not recognized in CScript. Only COM1 through COM9 can be accessed through the te.ComPort property.

CR 182, fixed in TinyTERM 4.52
CR 832, te.ComPort