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- PalmTerm Terminal - Version 0.0b
- Written by Dale Gass
- dale@ra.isisnet.com
-
- This is a very preliminary version of a terminal program, written with Jump
- (Java for the Pilot). It's a somewhat more traditional terminal program
- than others I've seen for the Pilot (where you enter text into a field
- and press Send). This one sends characters as you enter them.
-
- It achieves a 40x24 terminal display, by using it's own 3x5 font, which I
- think is quite readable, even for lower case characters. There is a menu
- choice for displaying the character set.
-
- For sending characters, the carriage-return stroke generates a CR (13)
- character, and a "next field" stroke (down and then up again) generates
- a LF (10) character.
-
- There are only a few controls in this version:
-
- Online - Opens the serial line, sends any characters you enter, and displays
- any received characters. Leaving this mode on will suck batteries.
-
- Echo - Echos any entered characters to the display. This is handy for
- playing with the program while not online (and not draining
- batteries). If you turn on echo, can you see how the character
- set looks by entering text. Use the new line stroke to go to
- the beginning of the line, and a "next field" stroke to move the
- cursor to the next line.
-
- Baud - Sets the baud rate
-
- Flow - Turns hardare (CTS/RTS) flow control on or off.
-
- There seems to be a problem when receiving a lot of text at high speeds.
- It's almost as if the flow control isn't working right. (It might also
- be a bug in HyperTerminal, which I was testing it with.) I need to do some
- more testing to determine the problem.
-
- Planned future improvements:
-
- - Further tweaks to the font, for improved readability
- - Control of more serial settings
- - Better status display
- - Elapsed online time display
- - Terminal emulation (probably a very minimal VT-100/ANSI subset)
-