My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm

http://theappleblog.com/2008/08/08/my-holy-grail-of-iphone-apps-arrives-pterm/

by terpua • 18 years ago

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sh1mmer• 18 years ago

The screen shots in the article showed top running but clipped to fit in the screen. Does anyone know if they support multitouch zooming like Safari?

That would be great.

fozy• 18 years ago

I don't think any of those screen shots were cropped, you can always see the status bar on the iPhone.

whalesalad• 18 years ago

The screenshots of this app are horrible. It looks like whoever made it didn't use native iPhone GUI elements... the corners and edges of the toggle between SSH // Telnet // Raw TCP look like total crap. The text for the nickname, port, etc... seems to be squeezed a bit and it appears blurred (unless of course this is due to a photoshop edit later on).

And for $5... come on! PuTTY is free and open source, why isn't this too!

I upgraded to 2.0.1 and lost all my jailbroken functionality in exchange for stable and bug-free core features. I'm definitely going that route again once they catch up and release their latest Pwnage tool.

pauljonas2• 18 years ago

I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.

amackera• 18 years ago

Especially one based off of FOS code!

riklomas• 18 years ago

OSX was based on BSD and people don't mind paying for OSX...

stcredzero2• 18 years ago

I wonder if it would be against the NDA to write and distribute a targeted parser/rewriter that transforms a particular bit of FOSS code to something that runs on the iPhone?

You wouldn't be distributing your iPhone app's code. You wouldn't be distributing the FOSS code -- presumably it's already being distributed by someone else. What you would be distributing the source code for wouldn't be running on the iPhone.

axod2• 18 years ago

Especially when you can just install a free ajax version on your own server, and access that from the iphones browser.

pauljonas2• 18 years ago

Eh, that might not be a good idea...

nailer5• 18 years ago

Cydia already has a terminal emulator and SSH (and nc if you need it) too.

noonespecial• 18 years ago

My kingdom for the TAB key! Seriously, when you're using one of these little guys, be it Apple, Nokia, whatever, autocomplete is your friend! The tab key is always missing, or 3 clicks or taps away.

awt• 18 years ago

I couldn't believe there was no way to tab.

arn• 18 years ago

there's another app that sounds like it will have more features that's still in the app store approval queue

http://www.zinger-soft.com/

post by dev: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5977302&postc...

jacobbijani• 18 years ago

Ouch, that must really suck. They also could have been "the first iPhone terminal app" if they were just approved sooner.

nailer5• 18 years ago

This sounds like you could actually use it for work - they've emphasized key combinations and it has X too.

Here's hoping they use a decent sans font rather than the horribly unreadable serif crap that's been floating around most terminal apps.

stcredzero2• 18 years ago

TouchTerm is only $2.99 as of this writing.

sc• 18 years ago

TouchTerm does not support terminal emulation. So, once you SSH into a server, good luck editing anything.

ralph• 18 years ago

Some of us are old enough to have used ed(1) out of necessity. :-) These days, `sed -i' is also useful for quick one-liners.

jrockway• 18 years ago

No control key or ESC key? So much for doing ... anything.

thorax• 18 years ago

There's a ctrl key in the top right of the screen rather than on the keyboard.

nailer5• 18 years ago

No quickly accessible tab either from what I can tell.

jawngee• 18 years ago

Gee with that virtual keyboard, looks awesome, where do I sign up?

/sarcasm

rufo• 18 years ago

Yup, works great. You can buy one at http://apple.com/iphone/

/nosarcasm

henning• 18 years ago

Wow, a feature that comes standard on other high-end phones? Unbelievable! http://maddox.xmission.com/putty3.gif

After waiting several months for developers to write and release code, you might be able to cobble together a bunch of apps that make up for the iPhone's flaws. The situation is identical to that of Windows.

My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm

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