droid

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Jean-Pierre A. Radley propounded (on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:23:10PM -0400):
>| Dennis DIller propounded (on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:59:36PM -0400):
>| | Does anyone on this list use a droid phone to operate filepro
>| | Let me know if there is a way
>| 
>| I have a Droid Incredible and one day I did fire up a terminal
>| application to connect to my Unix box.  I recall having some termcap
>| issues and wasn't, at the time, in the mood to resolve them. I'll post
>| to this list whenever I accomplish some useful task on the computer by
>| typing on the phone.
>
>I just reloaded ConnectBot,  This can't ever be useful.  After logging in,
>I tried to type a simple command, like 'date'.  Worked OK, but I found no
>way to always have the keyboard  in view.
>
>And the display font is SOOOO tiny, hardly readable.

That's pretty much the same conclusion I reached trying iSSH and
TouchTerm on my iPod Touch.  They're basically useless for much
of anything other than typing simple commands at the prompt.

>Before ever trying to bring up filePro, I realized that I had no obvious
>way to transmit an ESCape character, or to generate a Function Key
>sequence or DELete...

This is an issue with any touch screen or device with limited
keyboard.  iSSH and TouchTerm provide the ability to send
function, control, and other special keys, but it's not pretty.

Using an Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 on an iPad with
iSSH gets around some of these problems, but not all as control
and ESC combinations aren't available via the public APIs.  This
might not be an issue on the Droid.

In summary, I find the ssh/xterm Apps on the iPod Touch/iPhone to
be virtually worthless because of the screen size and keyboard
limitations.  They're more useful on the iPad with its much
larger screen, but I still find the FilePro usage less than ideal
because of termcap problems.

Bill
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