My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm

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Post by terpua » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 12:29 AM UTC

My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm
theappleblog.com

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Post by sh1mmer » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 1:44 AM UTC

The screen shots in the article showed top running but clipped to fit in the screen. Does anyone know if they support multitouch zooming like Safari?

That would be great.

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Post by fozy » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 2:25 AM UTC

sh1mmer wrote: post #2

The screen shots in the article showed top running but clipped to fit in the screen. Does anyone know if they support multitouch zooming like Safari? That would be great.

I don't think any of those screen shots were cropped, you can always see the status bar on the iPhone.

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Post by whalesalad » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 2:42 AM UTC

The screenshots of this app are horrible. It looks like whoever made it didn't use native iPhone GUI elements... the corners and edges of the toggle between SSH // Telnet // Raw TCP look like total crap. The text for the nickname, port, etc... seems to be squeezed a bit and it appears blurred (unless of course this is due to a photoshop edit later on).

And for $5... come on! PuTTY is free and open source, why isn't this too!

I upgraded to 2.0.1 and lost all my jailbroken functionality in exchange for stable and bug-free core features. I'm definitely going that route again once they catch up and release their latest Pwnage tool.

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Post by pauljonas » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 2:47 AM UTC

I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.

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Post by amackera » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 2:49 AM UTC

pauljonas wrote: post #5

I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.

Especially one based off of FOS code!

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Post by noonespecial » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 3:37 AM UTC

My kingdom for the TAB key! Seriously, when you're using one of these little guys, be it Apple, Nokia, whatever, autocomplete is your friend! The tab key is always missing, or 3 clicks or taps away.

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Post by arn » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 3:52 AM UTC

there's another app that sounds like it will have more features that's still in the app store approval queue

http://www.zinger-soft.com/

post by dev: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5977302&postc...

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Post by stcredzero » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 4:01 AM UTC

pauljonas wrote: post #5

I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.

I wonder if it would be against the NDA to write and distribute a targeted parser/rewriter that transforms a particular bit of FOSS code to something that runs on the iPhone?

You wouldn't be distributing your iPhone app's code. You wouldn't be distributing the FOSS code -- presumably it's already being distributed by someone else. What you would be distributing the source code for wouldn't be running on the iPhone.

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Post by jacobbijani » Sat, Aug 09, 2008, 4:05 AM UTC

arn wrote: post #8

there's another app that sounds like it will have more features that's still in the app store approval queue http://www.zinger-soft.com/ post by dev: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5977302&postc...

Ouch, that must really suck. They also could have been "the first iPhone terminal app" if they were just approved sooner.