OT: Aljex - Andriod

[Brian K. White]

On 12/5/2012 2:57 PM, Henry Arredondo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone knows if the Aljex putty version is available for Android ? It works so good on PC's and I was wondering if it's easy to migrate/compile for Android.
>
> Thanks

Ha not even remotely slightly no way :)

There are terminal emulators already for Android. They all have problems 
but Better Terminal Emulator Pro comes the closest.

It still has problems though. For instance it is hard coded to set 
TERM=vt100 and it's not configurable. But the terminal doesn't actually 
behave as a vt100, it actually behaves as xterm from x11r6 or later.

BTEP does let you specify the answerback string, which is another way 
you could get the term set right automatically, but it doesn't work. Set 
it to whatever you want, send the terminal a \005, and get nothing back.

So there's really no way to get the host to automatically recognize and 
handle the terminal properly. So you have to manually set TERM=xterm 
after logging in to any remote box, which is retarded. Plus there's 
other things like cut & paste doesn't work right.

But, the next best option, ConnectBot, has other problems like keyboard 
and bluetooth keyboard support. At least in BTEP, after setting 
TERM=xterm, all the F-keys work and the enter key behaves normally and 
all the same is also true on a bluetooth keyboard.

I'm still in the process of poking around to find a good answer. Like 
maybe using the regular android terminal app or one of the other 
local-only terminal apps, and a regular dropbear or openssh binary. I 
saw someone claim that the sshdroid app includes an ssh client binary 
even though the app description only mentions that it's an ssh server. I 
haven't tried it yet.

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bkw