Tera Term

Tera Term (rarely TeraTerm ) is a software-based, free, open-source terminal emulator. It can simulate some computer terminals from DEC VT100 VT382 to DEC. In this case, Telnet, SSH-1 and 2 and Seriellanschlussvarianten supported. Among other things, a macro scripting language and other useful auxiliary functions is integrated.

History

The first version was created in 1994 by Japanese T. Teranishi. At this time, Tera Term was the only free terminal emulator that supported the Japanese language. The development by the original programmer was in the late 1990s set with version 2.3. However, other organizations have continued, so that a wide variety originated.

In October 2002 Ayera Technologies Tera Term Pro has released version 3.1.3, which SSH-2 support and Datenbankuntersützung several additional features such as a built-in web server with API for external systems, recurring " life " commands and ODBC using TT macro scripting language. Ayera Technologies has not only disclosed the source code, but in addition to a limited technical support.

In 2004, the Japanese software designers Yutaka Hirata has initiated a new development of open software version Tera Term. He added his own implementation of SSH2 and several new features, in addition to the existing version 2.3, added. A complete overview is obtained in TeraTerm Support Forum ..

To avoid version number confusion and make it visible that the Hr. Yutaka developed Tera Term newer than the version 3.1.3 of Ayera Technologies, it was decided that the Tera Term Professional Version numbers should start with 4.xx.

In January 2005 Boris Maisuradze has started together with Yutaka Hirata a Tera Term Support forum where they answer user questions. Posts in this forum is the best way to suggest new program features or new macro commands.

Since 2007 is maintained as open-source software from Tera Term Tera Term Project (Japanese development team ).

The latest Tera Term version is compatible with Windows 95 and subsequent operating systems.

Macro code example

Getpassword ' username.dat ' ' myusername ' username getpassword ' password.dat ' ' mypassword ' password   User Name prompt = ' ogin ' Password Prompt = ' assword: '   inputbox ' Directory path & name Followed by' 'Logging Directory '; Default directory path for the log files C: \ Logs, loggerpath = ' C: \ Logs ' loggerpath = InputStr strcompare loggerpath ''   if result = 0 then     loggerpath = ' C: \ Logs ' endif   messagebox loggerpath 'logfile ' credentials