Original author(s) | T. Teranishi |
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Developer(s) | Tera Term Project |
Initial release | 1994; 26 years ago |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C and C++ (originally Pascal) |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Type | Terminal emulator |
License | BSD license |
Website | ttssh2.osdn.jp |
Tera Term (alternatively TeraTerm) is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator (communications) program. It emulates different types of computer terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. It supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2 and serial port connections. It also has a built-in macroscripting language (supporting Onigurumaregular expressions) and a few other useful plugins.
The first versions of Tera Term were created by T. Teranishi from Japan. At the time, it was the only freely available terminal emulator to effectively support the Japanese language. Original development of Tera Term stopped in the late 1990s at version 2.3, but other organizations have created variations.
In October 2002, Ayera Technologies released TeraTerm Pro 3.1.3 supporting SSH2 and added multiple other features like a built-in web server for API integration with external systems, recurring 'keep-alive' commands, and ODBC database support via the TT Macro Scripting Language. Ayera Technologies did not make their source open, but does provide limited technical support.
In 2004, Yutaka Hirata, a software designer from Japan, restarted development of the open source version of Tera Term. He added his own implementation of SSH2 and many new features on top of what was part of version 2.3.[1]
To avoid confusion with version numbers and to indicate that Tera Term developed by Yutaka was more recent than version 3.1.3 from Ayera Technologies, it was decided to give this branch of Tera Term Professional version numbers starting 4.xx.
'Fossies' - the Fresh Open Source Software Archive Contents of teraterm-4.105.zip (7 Dec 08:15, 8967201 Bytes) About: Tera Term is a software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports for e.g. Serial port and TCP/IP (telnet, SSH1, SSH2) connections, different emulations and UTF-8 character encoding. If MACRO has already been linked to Tera Term and Tera Term is not connected to the host, this command causes Tera Term to connect to the host specified. If MACRO has already been linked to Tera Term and Tera Term has already been connected to the host, this command is ignored.
In January 2005, Boris Maisuradze, together with Yutaka Hirata, started the TeraTerm Support forum where they answered questions from Tera Term users. Posting in this forum was the best way to suggest new features for Tera Term or propose new commands for the Tera Term Macro language. For more than 10 years the forum was hosted on LogMeTT.com website maintained by Boris Maisuradze. Boris also developed several freeware tools that became part of TeraTerm package. Later Boris decided to retire from this project. LogMeTT.com website was shut down and support forums moved to TeraTerm Project site.
Since 2007, Tera Term has been maintained by Tera Term Project (Japanese Developer team) as open source software.
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