Older versions of TinyTERM cause some applications to report a general protection fault in GDI.EXE. This is caused by the presence of the TERM fonts. To get rid of the error, delete all term*.fon files.

This will cause TinyTERM display problem, since its fonts are gone. Add a new font to TinyTERM to fix the problem. Monospaced fonts such as Courier New or Lucida Console are best.

On the other hand, if TinyTERM itself is giving the GPF error, the problem is one of two possibilities:

1. Duplicate TERM fonts. Check your Windows fonts directory. You’ll have several term*.fon files; i.e., term480.fon, term768.fon, etc. Delete all of those except the one with the highest number. The next time you start TinyTERM, the GPF should be gone.
2. Hardware acceleration. TinyTERM versions 3.0 and earlier don’t always handle fast graphics cards well under Windows 95. In Control Panel, go into the Performance applet and lower the speed of your hardware acceleration to bypass the error.

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If TinyTERM doesn’t open when you try to start it, but just puts a button on the Windows taskbar, it means the window position information has gotten corrupted. To fix that, right-click the button and select Maximize from the pop-up menu. TinyTERM will open full screen. From the File menu, select Save Session. This will usually fix the problem.

If it does not, you’ll need to edit the configuration file you’re using. Close TinyTERM and edit the .tpx file being used in Notepad. Search for the following two lines, which will be one right after the other:

xwindow=
ywindow=

They’ll both be set to very high numbers, or they’ll be negative numbers. Change each to 100:

xwindow=100
ywindow=100

Save the changes and close Notepad. The next time you start TinyTERM, it will open in a normal window. It may be too small, so resize it if you need to. Then save the session to make the changes permanent.

If your version of TinyTERM is old enough to use a configuration file with the .tap extension, the correct line to adjust in that file is:

window=

Change the first four numbers in that line     they’re separated by commas     to 100. The next time you start TinyTERM, resize the window to your needs.

Watch a screencast demonstrating this process.