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pTerm (SSH, Telnet Client) for iPhone

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Instant Cocoa has released pTerm [$4.99, App Store] an SSH, Telnet and raw TCP client for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application is based on the popular desktop client PuTTY.

Features include

- SSH, Telnet, and Raw Socket (TCP) support
- xterm terminal emulation
- 80x24 standard unix terminal window
- Pinch to zoom in the terminal
- Landscape and Portrait modes
- Support for CTRL keys
- Works over Edge, 3G, or WiFi connections
- Entirely based on PuTTY; if the features are in PuTTY, we can proably provide them on the iPhone!

While version 1.0 is in the App Store at present, version 1.1 is already in the queue which fixes two "crashy bugs" and allows full-screen mode via double-tap.

pTerm does support terminal emulation unlike TouchTerm which has also appeared this week.

Meanwhile, the reportedly full-featured SSH client from Zinger-Soft remains in Apple's approval queue and will be available internationally. Zinger-Soft has posted a few more screenshots of their App on their website.

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This is great as a side effect, the more terminal ssh type apps. the less hurdles IT folks will see in switching. less hurdles + more software = more iphone sales.
 
thrasherlife said:
how does this one compare to Zinger-Soft's?...based on feature set anyway since we're still waiting for that one.
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Zinger-Soft's is detailed a bit more in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/536564/

That being said, zinger-soft's app is complete and is simply awaiting government approval. It includes VT100, VT102, VT220, ANSI, xterm, and xterm-color emulation. It supports dynamically resizable terminals, fonts, and portrait and landscape mode (and, depending on the font, anywhere from 40x21 to 80x40). All the exotic key combinations (Ctrl-Shift-Up, for instance) are there. It has support for multiple simultaneous connections and maintains a list of open connections (as well as a default connection configuration list) that one will be able to reference and reconnect to on reopening the application. There is a scroll back buffer implemented in the standard iPhone scroll view interface, along with gesture arrow keys. Finally, it contains an X Server so one can switch between graphical and console input as necessary (and possible). Of course, for all the open sessions, the X Server is the same, so multiple machines will send their X clients to the same X Server.
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iSSH from Zinger-Soft sounds to be the most feature-full version, but it's not out yet.

arn
 
arn said:
Zinger-Soft's is detailed a bit more in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/536564/

iSSH from Zinger-Soft sounds to be the most feature-full version, but it's not out yet.

arn
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When I saw this I caved and decided to go ahead and just submit the thing to Apple rather than wait for full government approval (read: a chance it will just be available in the US as alone, but it really should be available internationally immediately). I created a build I considered stable, not feature-packed. That means no X Server or multiple connections. Neither are quite ready yet. Just the same, what Apple had submitted to them has exactly what you have seen in the screenshots. Landscape and portrait, a keyboard that's removable in landscape mode; scroll-back via swiping; arrow keys via swiping; crtl, Fn, tab and shift (and combinations there-in) as well as a command on connection.

I'll bet multiple connections and the X Server will probably available the same day Apple approves it--leading to version 1.1 being submitted on release. Are we all seeing a pattern here yet with the apps?
 
canadacow said:
I'll bet multiple connections and the X Server will probably available the same day Apple approves it--leading to version 1.1 being submitted on release. Are we all seeing a pattern here yet with the apps?
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pTerm looks pretty good! But since your iSSH is so close in the pipeline, I'm going to wait and compare. Since they're supposedly going to be the same price the X server would almost certainly make me choose iSSH unless there are stability or usability issues.

Not to be too dense, but what pattern are you referring to?
 
Brutalpootle said:
Not available in the UK store 🙁
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Cannot find it in the Irish store either (or in whichever iTunes store connect me to these days, it changes occasionally).

For a company who sell expensive toys to mobile professionals worldwide, Apple sure seem unprepared for the event that one of their customers is moving between countries.
 
tedsmith3rd said:
pTerm looks pretty good! But since your iSSH is so close in the pipeline, I'm going to wait and compare. Since they're supposedly going to be the same price the X server would almost certainly make me choose iSSH unless there are stability or usability issues.

Not to be too dense, but what pattern are you referring to?
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The pattern by which people are rushing to get apps released first which results in an almost immediate need to release an update. pTerm did it. I was going to wait (until I saw pTerm) and release all the promised features to date. What I release instead were the features that I was confident were stable, since I didn't want a repeat of the reviews for pTerm.
 
Nice, but... where is AFP for 2.0+ ?

We had it in 1.1.4, and it was perfect. Totally seamless integration with finder.

Who do I need to bribe, and how much?

Having to access the filesystem via SSH feels like going back to qdos.
 
Got it in the Canada store. Fantastic app (and probably as good as can be expected for an iphone)

just need select copy/paste
 
Why don't we have any ssh apps on the UK store - who decides to limit the countries apps are available in?
 
The US Government classes anything that uses encryption as munitions (i.e. weapons). It's been like that for years with ssh on other platforms. Most established projects (e.g. openSSH) are based outside American borders for this very reason. Basically you have to get approval to send the software outside the United States. It's absolutely bloody ridiculous really, because there are ssh clients on just about every platform imaginable and it's difficult to see how one more client on an iPhone is suddenly going to bring down America.

But then this is this is the country that elected George W. Bush... Twice...
 
lol, thanks for the explanation it makes sense now. Would a UK based developer be able to publish a ssh client to the UK store given Apple's US domicile or would the same restrictions apply?
 
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