Adjust
terminal Settings
When you connect to WAC Server, you might need to make
adjustment to some of the settings of your client program
or your terminal (or terminal emulator) to get the best
result.
WACTERM
and WACSSH
If you use the WAC native clients, you don't have to
do much settings because WACTERM and WACSSH naturally
supports all the features provided by WAC Server, including
full colors, Unicode encoding, mouse operations, different
terminal size, etc. We strongly recommend you to use WACTERM
to access our WAC Server whenever possible.
If you want to use mouse operations supported by WACTERM
or WACSSH, you need to disable the "Quick Edit" mode of
the Windows console, because that mode will use the mouse
for selecting the console content instead of sending the
mouse events to WAC Server applications. To disable the
"Quick Edit", do like this:
Click the console button in the window left-up border,
click "Properties", disable "Quick Edit"
mode under the "Edit Options", click "Ok",
check the second option when prompted, then click "Ok"
to finish.
WACTERM and WACSSH use the full screen of your console
window, if you want to use a different screen size for
your terminal, you have to resize the console window and
re-logon again. For more information regarding terminal
size, please refer to "Terminal
Size" section.
VTNT
An alternative client is Microsoft's telnet client for
Windows 2000 and later. If you are not running Windows
2000/XP on your client machine, you can actually copy
the telnet.exe file from a Windows 2000 machine and try
to run it on your other Windows platform. This telnet
client supports a special terminal type called VTNT, which
is defined by Microsoft and supported by WAC Server.
VTNT takes full advantages of PC keyboard and output
attributes, but it doesn't support mouse operations, not
quite convenient for all those WAC applications.
There are some other terminal products on the market
that support VTNT terminal too.
Other
Terminals
If you use clients other than WACTERM or VTNT, make sure
your terminal is set to DEC-VT compatible mode, or ANSI
compatible mode. Please note: some terminals
claim to be DEC-VT compatible or ANSI compatible, they
are actually not. So if you experience some problem like
messy screen or input inconsistency, take a look at the
settings of those terminals, or use another better terminal
program, like KoalaTerm from Foxit. (http://www.Foxitsoftware.com/download.htm)
The character set of the terminal, if possible, should
be set to "MS-DOS" or "IBM-PC" character set, which will
allow you to display most of the special characters in
the Windows console screen.
If your terminal support mouse, please set it to DEC
compatible mode so the mouse movement and click events
can be correctly sent to the server applications.
The recommended minimum terminal screen size is 80x25,
which will allow you to run most of the console applications
without program. WAC applications support larger terminal
size too.
Keyboard
Mapping
If you terminals other than WACTERM or VTNT, you need
to carefully set your keyboard mapping if you want to
make use of special function keys and key combinations
like ALT-keys.
Keyboard mapping means you can change the settings in
your terminal program so when you press certain key or
key combination at the terminal, some code sequence will
be sent to the server.
You have to set the keyboard mapping of your terminal
in such a way that the code sequences can be recognized
by WAC Server so your server application get the correct
keyboard code information.
Click here to see the list of code
sequences recognized by WAC Server (equivalents of VT
terminal keys are also listed).
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