TELNET for Palm-size WinCE?
Jim Christian
420. TERMINAL EMULATOR SHOOTOUT, WHICH IS BEST?
(Updated on 8-25-99)
There are plenty of good programs to select from, as I show below, but you
may not need one. There is a terminal program as part of the your devices
DUN. It can be used to communicate with most serial control devices. Under
Start - Programs - Communications - Connections/Terminal, make a New
Connection. Then select DUN and the appropriate modem. Under Configure, set
it to Manual Dial and enter a fake telephone number and a fake User ID &
Password. Now when dialing out, it will pop up a very basic terminal window
in which you can communicate.
If that doesn't solve your problem, try these.
a. Get something like Ruksun's Term Force Beta program and you can use
X-Modem to transfer files. It's at http://www.ruksun.com.
Term Force is a terminal emulation application for Windows CE. You can use
Term Force to connect to other machines or to your favorite Bulletin Board
Service, via the serial port, a modem or using the Infrared interface. Term
Force also supports the X-modem protocol. Some of the features in Term Force
v1.0hp are:
- Connection through the serial or Infrared port or through the modem
- Allows Connection and terminal settings management
- Supports TTY and VT100 emulation
- Configurable font settings
- File transfer using the X-modem (checksum), XModem-CRC and XModem-1K
- Clipboard support
For the complete list of Term Force features, check out the Term Force
web-page at http://www.ruksun.com/windowsce/products/termforce/index.html.
To download the Term Force v1.0hp for a 30-day evaluation copy, go to
http://www.ruksun.com/windowsce and click on the Term Force link.
Why would one use a program like this? The one reason I use Term Force for
is to transfer data back and forth from PCs etc., which don't have a PCMCIA
slot or CE Services installed. Using HyperTerminal, in Win95 & NT, and Term
Force on the CE machine I can transfer word documents, exe files, html files
etc., using X-Modem. With Term Force, I can transfer data from practically
any machine as long as I have the synch cable with me, without having to
install CE Services. Screen shots look like
Terminal emulators also exist because there are a few other operating
systems besides Windows. Most of them, say like Unix and Linux, can be
accessed via a terminal. Most have a way to dial-up, and establish a PPP
network connection. Once done, one, or many, telnet sessions can be made.
b. Another free one is called Filegram. Filegram allows you to send or
receive files with your HPC using popular protocols such as XModem. This
allows you to transfer files with any PC or device without having to install
Windows CE Services.
On the PC side, you can use any software that supports any one of the
popular
protocols (such as XModem) that Filegram uses. An example is HyperTerminal,
which comes with your Windows 95/98/NT. Alternatively, you can use the
Windows 95/98/NT version of Filegram at their web site.
Filegram currently uses 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit, and features
XModem (Checksum)
XModem/CRC
Selectable baud rates
Selectable COM port
Selectable flow control
Autoswitches from Checksum mode to CRC automatically.
It's free at
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~cheekeat/wince/Filegram/filegram.html.
c. I have also heard great words about vxHpc from Cambridge Computer. It
gives you better control over the serial port and provides Zmodem file
transfer (which Term Force does not). Zmodem is faster and allows
HyperTerminal to Auto Receive a file with no operator intervention. Also,
vxHpc has scripting where you can send multiple files and an entire folder
to the desktop with little effort.
vxHpc allows you to connect any Windows CE-based Handheld, Handheld Pro and
Palm-size PC to BBS's, Digital, Unix, Wang and Internet host systems. Its
features include:
a. Full Digital VT52, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220, VT320, VT420 and Wang
2110A emulation.
b. Serial, modem, infrared and Telnet (TCP/IP) communications capability.
c. Full color support.
d. vxHpc allows copy/paste between host sessions and Windows CE documents.
e. Script processing is available for automatic logon's.
f. Unlimited scroll back buffer
g. Complete printer support
h. Capture screen and printer text to any selected file.
i. Kermit/Xmodem/Ymodem/Zmodem and text file transfer capability.
j. Hot keys for frequently used commands and keyboard remapping.
k. Operates on all Handheld, Handheld Pro and Palm-size PC's.
l. Windows CE 1.0, 2.0 and 2.11 compatible.
Screen shots look like:
Best of all vxHpc costs only $30 and they have a 30-day trial at
http://www.cam.com/vxhpc.html.
d. Another one is ActiveBridge Telnet CE. ActiveBridge Telnet CE enables
handheld and palm-size PC users to connect to applications running on Unix
and IBM hosts. You can supply remote and traveling employees with access to
critical business systems via today's most widely used emulation types.
ActiveBridge Telnet CE is an inexpensive terminal emulation application,
which provides HPC, HPC Pro, and Palm-size CE users connectivity to IBM
Mainframes, AS/400, and UNIX systems. ActiveBridge Telnet CE includes
terminal emulation for VT100, VT220, 3270, and 5250 via TCP/IP. It's at
http://www.telnetce.com/telnetce/.
e. ZTERM for Windows CE is a free fully featured terminal emulator now
available on Windows CE 2.11 and later. ZTERM for Windows CE emulates the
following terminals:
Alpha Micro AM62A monochrome field terminal
Alpha Micro AM75 color terminal in AM62C field terminal mode
ANSI color mode terminal
Contemporary Cybernetics CY-350 color field terminal
DEC VT-100 monochrome mode terminal
Wyse-350 color field terminal
Wyse-50 monochrome mode terminal
ZTERM for Windows CE can connect to the host via the following methods:
Direct serial connection
Connection via modem with Windows CE automatic dialing
Telnet connection via network interface
Telnet connection via Windows CE Remote Networking
Encrypted telnet using SSL-sockets
It also features accurate screen-printing and a dot-matrix printer emulator
that can produce 80x66 and 132x66 output on any printer supported by Windows
CE. The dot-matrix emulator runs as a background task and can be printed to
using printer pass through commands or via an LPR/LPD interface. The beta is
free at http://www.coolstf.com/.
f. Ericom has emulation software named PowerTerm CE that will connect to
many Unix systems with a CE unit. PowerTerm CE enables handheld PC users to
connect to applications running on a variety of UNIX, DEC and IBM hosts. It
also supports a full line of Digital, WYSE, IBM, DG, VT-100 and other
terminal emulations. They have a trial program at
http://www.ericom.com/ptce.asp.
g. Naurtech Corporation has announced their CE3270 is an IBM 3270 terminal
emulation application, designed specifically for the Windows CE operating
system that provides mainframe host access to the corporate mobile
professional. CE3270 allows corporations that maintain mission critical data
and business applications on IBM 3270 mainframe hosts, to remotely access
these using a Windows CE handheld device, over a wire line or wireless IP
data network. It looks like:
Get it at http://www.naurtech.com/ce3270.htm.
h. Get this free Terminal Server from Microsoft. Use this Terminal Server
client to turn your Handheld PC Pro device into a Windows-based Mobile
Terminal. With a Mobile Terminal, you can now access full function
Windows-based applications when connected to a Windows NT Terminal Server
4.0 and Windows 2000 Terminal Services over wired and wireless LAN or
dial-up connections. When the Mobile Terminal is disconnected, you can still
access local data and applications.
Applications include simpler Pocket versions of popular desktop applications
such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer. Line of business
applications can be purchased from hundreds of companies or easily
customized for these Windows CE-based devices using broadly adopted developm
ent tools and technologies including Visual Basic, Visual C++, and the Win32
and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) application programming interfaces. All of
the data on these devices can be kept in sync with one's desktop PC or
corporate servers.
Get it free at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce/products/download/term-serv.asp.
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Hopefully this answer helped you and others and if so please visit my
www.hpcmag.com web site for my new Windows CE Tips site.
Jim Christian
Associate Editor of Handheld PC Mag at http://www.hpcmag.com, Compuserve
(GO) Palmtop Sysop and Associate Forum manager at
http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/windowsce/
Djundi Tjindra <dju...@inaweb.co.id> wrote in message
news:OipVZ1p8#GA....@cppssbbsa02.microsoft.com...
> Is there any TELNET software for Palm-size WinCE 2.0?
> If yes, where could it be obtained?
>
> Thanks,
> Djundi Tjindra
>
>
>
Djundi Tjindra
Jason Dunn, MVP/CE
You bet - vxHPC from http://cam.com/vxhpc.html will do the trick.
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