TinyTERM for iPad and TinyTERM ITX for iPhone both allow the user to build custom on-screen keyboards. The individual key rows are automatically centered when they are drawn. Century Software has received a request to allow the user to set a starting position for the keyboard, so that it can be left-justified.

CR 973

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

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 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.

TinyTERM ITX allows the user to set colors for foreground text, the background, the cursor and bold text. In contrast, TinyTERM for Windows allows the user to set sixteen foreground and background colors, covering all combinations of text attributes: normal, bold, reverse, blink and underline. However, it does not allow the user to change cursor color.

Century Software, Inc., has received a request to give TinyTERM ITX the same flexibility in color mapping as TinyTERM for Windows.

CR 918

It is possible to launch iOS apps from Safari on the iPad and iPhone. At present TinyTERM does not have this capability.

CR 943

The Wyse50 and Wyse60 emulations display protected mode text as reverse on Mac, Linux and iOS devices. This is hard to read in some circumstances. Century Software, Inc., has received a request to allow other options for displaying protected text, similar to the options in TinyTERM for Windows.

In TinyTERM for iPad version 1.2.0, this was updated to display protected mode text in bold.

CR 942

Century Software, Inc., has received several requests for RS232 serial support in TinyTERM for iPad. Now that the Redpark Serial Cable for iOS has been approved officially by Apple, we are exploring the possibility of using it with TinyTERM.

Adding Bluetooth serial support to TinyTERM is more problematic. As of version 5, iOS does not support Serial Port Profile (SPP). The best wireless solution for now is a wifi-to-RS232 device, which is fully supported both by iOS and by TinyTERM.

CR 903, Bluetooth
CR 940, serial cable