Windows has a “standard keyboard buffer” feature which can be accessed programmatically. For example, the Visual Basic SendKeys function uses the buffer to pass information to other programs.

TinyTERM does not respond to input from the standard keyboard buffer. It has been reported that with a strict 16-bit implementation, TinyTERM will accept such input. However, that puts significant restrictions on the applications written to that standard.

CR 64

Century Software, Inc., has received a report that the TN3270 emulation hangs when you hit Return while in a protected field. This has not been duplicated. The actual problem may be caused by the next screen received from the host, not the protected field itself.

CR 639

Configure a second or third printer in TinyTERM. Enable spooling, with release either on key press or timeout with a non-zero value. It doesn’t matter what the timeout value is, or whether or not you hit a key. A transparent print job does not actually print until you turn spooling off, then send another print job. That pushes the existing job out of the queue. Closing TinyTERM causes any currently spooling print jobs to be lost.

CR 637

The Wyse50 terminal includes a host message capability. To send the message, the command is \033F. This puts the message at the top of the display area, rather than in a reserved screen area. This is not implemented in TinyTERM as yet.

CR 635

Configure a .tpx file to print to the Windows printer, with Bypass Printer Drivers checked. Open the .tpx file in Internet Explorer. Transparent print jobs come to the screen. A print job shows as spooling in Windows until the emulator is closed. Then the job disappears.

CR 634

With TERM for HP-UX, if you specify a .con file on the command line:

term connection.con

it does not successfully connect via modem. You get the error, “Modem not responding” instead. The modem responds normally if the .con file is not specified.

CR 633

Set up a TinyTERM shortcut to open multiple .tpx files. Configure each to login automatically and start a host application. The application doesn’t start in all sessions. If you open the .tpx files one at a time in a single instance of TinyTERM, each connects properly and loads the application.

CR 632

Century Software, Inc., has had requests for a PDA-based terminal emulator. We do not publish one at this time, though it’s been reported that TinyTERM 4.30 and higher will run on a PocketPC, but the text is almost unreadably small.

Operating systems that have been requested at least once: PocketPC, Windows CE, PalmOS, Blackberry.

CR 631

Set up an FTP session in Century FTP Plus and connect. Highlight a destination file in the graphical FTP client. Go to the File menu and select Rename. The error, “file does not exist” comes up if you try to continue.

CR 630

In the TN3270 and TN5250 emulations, the system keys — Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Break — can’t be mapped with Shift pressed. Century Software, Inc., has had a request to make these mappable. This has not been implemented thus far.

CR 629