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

In TinyTERM ITX for iPhone, generate an SSH key. When that finishes, select the option to email the public key. After the email has finished sending, it returns automatically to TinyTERM ITX. But the title bar is missing and with it, the Settings button that allows you to move back a screen. You have to close TinyTERM ITX and reopen it to get that title bar back.

CR 960, fixed in TinyTERM ITX for iPhone 1.0.1

On some Windows 7 systems, TinyTERM version 4.65.4985 (August 2011 release) will fail to run. Instead, the following error comes up:

Error (4547) Method Redraw Called With Invalid Object Instance

This is due to User Access Control (UAC) settings interfering with the TinyTERM install process. It’s caused by a bug in the install routines. This was fixed in TinyTERM version 4.65.5012.

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 SSL connection with TN3270 emulation, the status line at the bottom of the TinyTERM window shows the message, “Connected = no connection.” This is cosmetic. The connection works normally.

CR 949, fixed in TinyTERM Plus 4.7.0

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 ITX for Mac will occasionally fail to install on OS X version 10.5. This does not happen on all such systems. There is no workaround at present.

CR 944

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