Century Software, Inc., has had a request to make it possible to hide the NFS Server, rather than displaying it on the Windows task bar. It could run as a service, or minimize to the system tray, for example. This enhancement has not been implemented.

CR 184

There is no way to set a default directory for file transfers in TinyTERM. When you save a session, the last used send and receive directories are saved with it instead.

CR 151

TinyTERM 4.41 and higher have an option to use 32-bit ZMODEM for file transfer, in addition to the older 16-bit ZMODEM. This has not been added to TERM for UNIX yet.

CR 63, TinyTERM
CR 147, TERM for UNIX

The server.cmd script included with TERM for AIX does not list the ZMODEM or WTERMCRC file transfer protocols. So if you run:

term -x server

those protocols are unavailable from the menus. To work around this, run TERM in server mode instead:

WTERMCRC: term -1x
ZMODEM: term -2x

CR 129

When using the Century FTP Client to connect to an FTP server using the QNX realtime operating system, no files are displayed. The command-line FTP client on the same PC will list files properly.

This problem has not been reported with SecureFT, the replacement for the Century FTP Client.

CR 113

Some customers would like to have SecureFT start up the same way the Century FTP Client did, with a dialog that shows the different connections available. Some customers prefer the older interface in general to the newer.

This is something Century Software, Inc., has taken under advisement. It would require a substantial rewrite of the user interface for SecureFT. We can’t simply port the old interface over, as we’ve added SCP and SFTP to the available protocols.

Also, SecureFT writes each connection configuration to a separate file. The Century FTP Client wrote them all as sections of one large file, which became unwieldy and hard to read if enough connections were created. Nevertheless, it’s not an idea we’ve discarded.

TinyTERM Plus 4.53 has been adjusted so that SecureFT automatically opens the last connection used, provided you attempt to connect immediately after opening it. If you use any of the menus first, that saved configuration is lost.

CR 453, more “user-friendly” interface
CR 679, restore Century FTP interface
CR 700, alter behavior to be more like Century FTP
CR 717, default startup configuration
CR 746, on-the-fly file renaming

Open SecureFT and configure a connection. Set the Initial Remote Expanded Path on the Server tab of the Edit Configuration dialog. Regardless of the protocol selected, you’ll still get put into your home directory on the remote system after connecting.

This is in part due to the different protocols available (FTP, SFTP and SCP) and the requirements of different file transfer servers. There is no general case that will allow any protocol on any server to be read perfectly, which limits how the remote path can be selected, if at all.

The Initial Local Expanded Path also fails, but in a different way. If you specify a directory — for example, C:\Temp — it expands that path, but it still displays the local files from the top of My Computer rather than taking you to the directory you chose.

CR 49, Century FTP local directory
CR 476, SCP
CR 669, general

The Century FTP Client “Configuration Info” dialog has three tabs: Session, View/Sort and Transfer. The last two are switched in name only. If you go to the Session menu and select View/Sort, it takes you to the tab named Transfer, which has the View/Sort settings. The reverse is true of the Transfer menu option.

CR 431, fixed in TinyTERM 4.30

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

Create an FTP session using the graphical Century FTP Client. From the Session menu, select View/Sort, or go to the View/Sort tab in the Configuration dialog. In the Directory Item Structure at the bottom, make UNKNOWN the first word. Save the settings. When you connect, there’s a program error and Ftp32.exe crashes. This was fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.30.

CR 379