Telnet Terminal

This window provides ANSI terminal emulation using the TCP/IP Telnet protocol to interact with a remote terminal server or host computer.  The window is resizable depending upon desired size and screen resolution.  A number of terminal options are specified through a dialog box.  A log of each Telnet session may be saved, written to the normal logging directory with a file name format telnet-yyyymmdd-hhnnss.

Telnet Address

Specify the host address for the remote computer.  This will only connect if the host supports the Telnet protocol.  The last 20 addresses specified will be saved for re-use in the drop down list box.

Port

The connection port for the remote computer, generally ‘telnet’.

Connect

This button initiates a connection to the remote computer.  This may fail if an invalid Telnet Address has been specified or if the remote computer does not support Telnet.

Disconnect

This button closes the connection.

Options

Display a dialog box with various terminal appearance options.  These may be defaulted appropriately by clicking the A11, Labo, RDV or USUS buttons.

Note: Options are saved separately for each telnet host address specified, when the Options dialog is saved, and automatically restored when that host address is used again.

Rows                The number of screen rows for the terminal emulation window, normally 25 rows.
               The font size will be adjusted to fit the rows into the window.

Cols                The number of columns for the terminal emulation window, normally 80 columns.

Lheight                The Line Height in points, usually 12 point.

Font                Display a Font selection dialog allowing the desired fixed pitch screen font to be chosen.

AutoCR                If ticked, a carriage return is sent when the cursor key in used to move down a line.

AutoLF                If ticked, a line feed is sent when the carriage return is sent.

Local Echo        It ticked, any typing in the terminal will appear locally.
               This is used when the remote computer does not echo text back.

Monochrome        if ticked, disables colours.

OEM Charr Set        It ticked, use the OEM character set used by DOS.

Uppercase        If ticked, forces typing as upper case.

Function Keys        Defines the keyboard function keys are being compatible with SCO UNIX, VT100 or A11.