Tera Term Pro version 2.2 for MS-Windows 95/NT T. Teranishi Jul 2, 1997 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 T. Teranishi All Rights Reserved. Index 1. About Tera Term 2. Notice 3. Requirements 4. Installation 5. Usage 6. Known problem 7. Acknowledgment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. About Tera Term Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports: - Serial port connections. - TCP/IP (telnet) connections. - VT100 emulation, and selected VT200/300 emulation. - TEK4010 emulation. - File transfer protocols (Kermit, XMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS and Quick-VAN). - Scripts using the "Tera Term Language". - Japanese and Russian character sets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Notice Tera Term (Pro) is a free software. There is no warranty for damages caused by using this application. Without written permission by the author (Takashi Teranishi), you may not distribute modified packages of Tera Term, and may not distribute Tera Term for profit. For requests, questions and bug reports, contact the author by e-mail at the following address: teranishi@rikaxp.riken.go.jp Please read Tera Term help and other text files carefully before you contact the author. The author will appreciate any kind of support from you if it does not put the author under some obligation. You may find the latest version of Tera Term at the following sites: ftp://riksun.riken.go.jp/pub/pc/misc/terminal/teraterm/ ftp://ftp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/PC/terminal/teraterm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Requirements Supported operating systems: MS-Windows 95 MS-Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 Note: For Windows 3.1, use Tera Term version 1.X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Installation 1) If you have installed an old version of Tera Term, uninstall it. 2) Copy all the distribution files to an empty floppy disk or temporary directory (for example C:\TEMP). 3) Run SETUP.EXE and follow the instruction given by it. 4) After the installation, the distribution files are no longer needed. you can delete them or may keep them in the floppy disk. To run SETUP.EXE in the silent mode which skips user input dialog boxes, specify the following command line options: Format: SETUP.EXE [/S] [/L] [] where: /S Silent mode. /L Language mode of Tera Term. /LE English. /LJ1 Japanese (IBM PC). /LJ2 Japanese (NEC PC; Windows 95). /LJ3 Japanese (NEC PC; Windows NT). /LR Russian. Directory to which Tera Term is installed. Example: SETUP.EXE /S /LE "C:\Program Files\TTERMPRO" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Usage 1) For a telnet connection Enter the host name or IP address of the host in the "[File] New connection" dialog box. 2) For a serial port connection Select the serial port in the "[File] New connection" dialog box. Set appropriate parameters for the port in the "[Setup] Serial port" dialog box. See Tera Term help for detail. See KEYCODE.TXT for the description of keyboard setup. See TTPMACRO.TXT for the description of scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Known problem Sometimes the installer does not create the Tera Term program group and shortcut icons. In this case, restart the system and reinstall Tera Term, or create them by yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Acknowledgment I would like to thank everyone who sent bug reports and suggestions. I especially thank the people who have supported the development of Tera Term from very early on. I also wish to thank the following people: Members of experimental nuclear physics groups in RIKEN and University of Tokyo for supporting the development. Akihiro Shirahashi for helping with distribution of Tera Term and maintaining the Tera Term mailing list. Hirofumi Fujii for giving useful information on terminal emulation and communication programing. Luigi M Bianchi for helping with the documentation included in this package. Yukio Mitsuyama and Yoshihiro Yamato for testing Tera Term with PC-98 keyboard. Ralf Schares for helping with the modification of the Tera Special font. Juri Tsibrovski and Serguei Lukyanov for giving information about Russian character code sets.