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

Install TinyTERM on Windows Vista or Windows 7, then connect to a SCO OpenServer 5 system via telnet. If you hit the Delete key at a shell prompt, it gives a new prompt on the next line. Do this enough times and TinyTERM will disconnect. This does not happen on earlier versions of Windows.

This is due to a change in TCP/IP originally implemented in Windows Vista. More information is available from Microsoft support. This was fixed in TinyTERM version 4.65.4732.

CR 856, Delete key
CR 865, Escape key

To make a telnet connection in TinyTERM 4.x, do the following:

1. From TinyTERM’s Edit menu, select Session Properties.
2. Under Connection type, select Telnet.
3. In the Emulation drop-down list, select the terminal emulation required by your host.
4. In the Host name, IP address, or phone number box, enter the hostname or IP address of the server.
5. Click OK to close the Session Properties dialog.
6. From TinyTERM’s File menu, select Save Session.
7. Click the Connect button.

Century Software, Inc., has had a request for an option to require 8-bit telnet negotiation. This would minimize configuration problems when international characters are required.

CR 822

When using telnet to connect to an IBM mainframe running VSC or VSE, TinyTERM’s TN3270 emulation connects, then immediately disconnects with no errors. The mainframe log shows a variant on one of the following errors, depending on which version of TCP/IP is installed:

TEL911E TN3270 negotiation error type askterm.

TEL967E Negotiation error: Expected FFFB18 received null.

TinyTERM on the same PC has no problems connecting to a mainframe running VM.

CR 776, fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.7.1, 24 January 2012

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

The Telnet terminal type setting in TinyTERM allows you to change the terminal type that the host sees announced in telnet connections. It also applies to SSH connections. In older versions of TinyTERM for Windows, it’s called the netterm setting.

Unlike TinyTERM, TERM for UNIX/Linux does not have a Telnet terminal type or netterm option. Century Software, Inc., has had a request to add this feature.

CR 524

In TERM for UNIX, WTERMCRC file transfers move much more quickly over an rlogin connection than they do over a telnet connection. The fastest file transfer protocol for TCP/IP connections is FTP, but that does not include the benefits that come from TERM-to-TERM transfers.

CR 518

Century Software, Inc., has received a request to implement RFC 2217 – Telnet Com Port Control Option in TinyTERM. That has not been implemented thus far.

CR 310

When using the Delete key to interrupt a UNIX process, such as a long directory listing, a telnet connection hangs. You have to disconnect and reconnect. This is fixed in TinyTERM 4.13.

CR 163