On a system with Microsoft Word XP installed, configure TinyTERM for a modem connection. Once TinyTERM has dialed in, open a Word document. This takes several minutes to complete, or completes as soon as TinyTERM hangs up. It doesn’t matter if you double-click the file, or if you use Word’s File menu to open the document.
This does not happen with serial or network connections.

CR 250

Code pages determine which characters are sent when a keyboard key is pressed, and which ones are displayed when data is received. TinyTERM has over 50 which will cover most Western languages, plus Unicode support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and UTF-8.

More information is available in the TinyTERM Help. Go to the “Reference” section of the Contents, then to the “Code Page Reference.”

CR 243

Century Software, Inc., has been asked for a TinyTERM option that would remove the maximize, minimize and close buttons from the title bar. To date this has not been implemented.

CR 24

Using the Century FTP Client to connect to a VAX FTP server, you cannot delete a file. Instead, you’ll see an error like, “Unable to delete the file %RMS-F-SYN file spec Syntax error.” Other FTP clients tested against the same VMS system can delete the same file.

CR 238, fixed in SecureFT

From the View menu or the Preferences option on the Edit menu, most of the information in the TinyTERM 4.x window can be turned off. However, there is no way at present to turn off the title bar. So TinyTERM isn’t quite capable of displaying completely full screen, taking over the entire area. But it does come close.

CR 236

In a CScript that does multiple FTP file transfers, the second transfer can generate the message, “Error (4514) Bad argument to function: Expected number, got undefined.”

The following script also exhibits the problem:

FTSetProtocol(“FTP”);
FTSetHostName(“ftp.domain.net”);
FTSetUserName(“anonymous”);
FTSetPassword(“user@domain.com”);
FTSetSync(1);
FTSetXferStat(false);
FTGet(“/pub/README”,”C:/Temp”);

If you use FTSetXferStat(true); instead of false, the error doesn’t happen. But it does if you set the End of transfer acknowledgement option in TinyTERM’s File Transfer Properties.

This error is not consistent across versions of TinyTERM or Windows, nor does every script with multiple FTP file transfers exhibit the problem.

CR 234, multiple transfer error resolved in TinyTERM 4.7.2, 15 March 2012
CR 778, script

In TinyTERM Plus 4.x, Century NFS is only supported on Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0. On newer versions of Windows, it will either not function or cause system crashes.

Century Software, Inc., has had requests to support Windows 2000, Me and XP. To date we have not done so, primarily because Samba provides a much simpler and cost-effective solution.

CR 233

Most terminal emulations allow the host to change the cursor: from a block to an underscore, from blinking to solid, etc. TinyTERM 4.x can ignore text color changes triggered by the host, but not cursor changes.

CR 232

When using TVI925 or TVI950, there is an escape sequence that will lock the keyboard: \033#. To unlock the keyboard, the sequence is \033″.

In TinyTERM 4.x, these sequences are ignored. The user can continue to type, even when the keyboard should be locked.

CR 225

On a UNIX system, disable getty on a modem port. Then run a TERM script that does an answer wait on the modem. The script should continue to execute when someone dials into that modem.

When you run this script in the background using the ampersand character:

term modemscript.cmd &

the script never answers the modem, even if the script works properly run without the & switch. The TERM process runs, but it does not answer the modem.

CR 224
CR 228, all background scripts fail on Sun