When connecting over the Internet with a telnet or SSH connection, occasionally temporary network drops happen. TinyTERM can normally recover from these if you don’t type while the network is down. However, since it’s hard to tell that the network connection was temporarily lost until you type something, you’ll normally notice the failure when TinyTERM appears to lock up.

It has not actually locked. Instead, it has lost the network connection it had to the server. In most cases the menus will work normally, and you can exit TinyTERM gracefully.

Some versions of TinyTERM do not handle the connections as well. In those cases, the only thing you can do is close TinyTERM from the Task Manager. Typing Ctrl-Alt-Delete will bring that up in any version of Windows.

CR 126, disconnect handling improved in TinyTERM 4.10.
CR 159, intermediary system disconnects

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