Tera Term version 1.4 for MS-Windows 3.1 T. Teranishi Mar 10, 1998 Copyright (C) 1994-1998 T. Teranishi All Rights Reserved. Index 1. About Tera Term 2. Notice 3. Requirements 4. Installation 5. Usage 6. Acknowledgment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. About Tera Term Tera Term 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 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. Before you send requests, questions and bug reports to the author, please read carefully this file, Tera Term help, MACRO help, KEYCODE.TXT and Tera Term home page. You can find the e-mail address of the author in Tera Term help and Tera Term home page. The URL of Tera Term home page is: http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html (The address may be changed in future.) 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 Tera Term home page and the following sites: ftp://riksun.riken.go.jp/pub/pc/misc/terminal/teraterm/ ftp://ftp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/PC/terminal/teraterm/ (These addresses may be changed in future.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Requirements Supported operating system: MS-Windows 3.1 (enhanced mode) Note: For Windows 95/NT, use Tera Term Pro. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. You can specify the following command line options for SETUP.EXE: Format: SETUP.EXE [/S] [/L] [] where: /S Skips user input dialog boxes /L Language mode of Tera Term. /LE English. /LJ1 Japanese (IBM PC/AT keyboard). /LJ2 Japanese (NEC PC98 keyboard). /LR Russian. Directory to which Tera Term is installed. Example: SETUP.EXE /S /LE C:\TERATERM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 MACRO help (MACRO.HLP) for the description of scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. 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 programming. 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. Vector Design company for providing a place for Tera Term home page. 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. Andrey Nikiforov for making a Russian code conversion table. Tatsuhiko Sakamoto for making new icons. Robert O'Callahan for helping with the development of Tera Term extension interface.