If you put two or more shortcuts to TinyTERM in your Windows Startup group, only one will launch. You’ll see buttons for both on the taskbar, but one button will disappear.

Once all applications have finished loading, minimize all of them. The second TinyTERM window will then open. There is no workaround or patch for this behavior.

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TinyTERM and TERM for Windows include a vertical scrollbar through versions 3.3 and 7.2 respectively. This allowed the user to scroll backward through a session quickly.

The scrollbar was temporarily removed in TinyTERM 4.00-4.20. It was re-added in version 4.21 as part of the View menu.

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Both TinyTERM version 4.x and all versions of TERM for UNIX are multithreaded applications. They will take advantage of multiple processors as well.

However, multithreading and multiprocessor support are handled by the operating system. So TinyTERM and TERM for UNIX will only use multithreading and multiple processors if the OS allocates the resources accordingly.

All versions of TERM have the capability to record a user’s keystrokes and the host system’s responses. It’s accessed through the TERM Script Language command LEARN:

LEARN START filename
LEARN STOP

Replace filename with the name of the TSL command file you want to create.

In TERM for Windows, a “Learn mode” or “Macro recorder” option is also available from the Tools menu. It will request a file name in a Windows dialog, and otherwise functions the same way as the LEARN command.

Most versions of TinyTERM do not have such capability, as it requires a script language. However, TinyTERM versions 4.30 and above do have a macro recorder on the Tools menu. It behaves as the LEARN command in earlier versions, but creates a CScript file instead of TSL.

TinyTERM allows you to choose between block and underline cursors. If you choose a solid or blinking block, it may still come up as an underline when you start TinyTERM. Opening Session Properties will show it as a block cursor, and when you click OK to close it, the cursor will change. This was fixed in TinyTERM 4.30.

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By default, TinyTERM is configured to prompt the user to save the session when it closes. To stop that, go to TinyTERM’s Edit menu and select Preferences. There’s a “Save Settings on Exit” option. Set that to “Never” and you won’t see the prompt on close again.

This is normal. Full-screen applications, also called screen-oriented applications, don’t actually scroll the screen at all. Instead, they use cursor control commands to move around a static screen. This means there’s nothing to scroll back to, as the screen hasn’t really advanced.

To test this, go to a command prompt in UNIX and run a few line-oriented commands such as echo or ls. You should be able to scroll back through all those. But if you use a screen-oriented application such as vi, that won’t scroll as you would expect.

When you copy text in the TinyTERM screen that includes line draw characters, they will paste into other applications as text instead. The underlying cause is the way line draw characters are displayed.

Virtually all terminal emulations use a separate display font for line draw characters. The host sends a signal, usually an escape sequence, that tells the terminal to switch to the alternate font. The host then sends the letters you see when you copy and paste, and the emulation does the display substitution.

TinyTERM version 4 uses an ActiveX control for display. When you copy out of that ActiveX control, you get the underlying data, which is not what’s displayed in the emulator window. But it is what gets pasted.

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The Century Software, Inc., End User License Agreement is available online in PDF form:

EULA

This error during a Windows install of TERM or TinyTERM always indicates a problem accessing the registry. You must have local PC administrator rights to install. Without that, TinyTERM will not install or run properly.