Terminal / Emulation / Advanced

This category only appears if VanDyke Software's SecureCRT® 5.0 (or newer) is also installed.

The Emulation/Advanced category of the Session Options dialog allows you to modify standard terminal emulation settings for the selected session in order to communicate with special remote machines. Most users will not need to modify any of these settings.

Advanced terminal options group

This group contains advanced emulation controls.

Answerback

By default, SecureCRT does not respond to the ENQ character with an answerback message. To enable the answerback feature for this session, check this option and enter the message to be sent.

With the Answerback option selected, SecureCRT will respond to the ENQ character with the specified answerback message. You can include substitution variables to be sent to the remote server when the server sends the ENQ (control byte 5) command.

Terminal type

By default, SecureCRT sends the terminal type to the remote machine as designated by the terminal emulation type. To send a string other than the terminal type emulated by SecureCRT to the remote machine, check this option and enter the terminal type string.

Display tab as

Some applications produce data in a tab-separated columnar format. SecureCRT allows you to change how the tab character is displayed by substituting a specific character or string in place of the tab character. For example, substituting a comma in place of the tab character would produce comma-separated data which could be imported into a spreadsheet or other application that uses comma-separated data.

To change the text displayed when a tab character is received by SecureCRT , check this option and enter the tab replacement string or character.

Other group

This group contains miscellaneous emulation controls.

Local echo

Most systems that accept remote terminal connections receive characters from the terminal keyboard and echo them to the terminal screen. However, there are some legacy systems that do not echo characters received from the terminal keyboard to the terminal screen. On such machines, you will not be able to see what you have typed unless you enable local echo. By default, local echo of user input is disabled.

To enable local echo of user input, check this option.

Strip 8th bit

ASCII uses seven bits to represent characters. Some seven-bit systems do not clear the eighth bit, causing some characters to be displayed incorrectly. If some characters are not being displayed correctly, try enabling the Strip 8th bit option.

To cause SecureCRT to strip (ignore) the high-order bit of each byte received from the remote host, check this option.

Ignore window title change requests

This option causes SecureCRT to ignore escape sequences that would change the title bar.

Copy to clipboard as RTF and plain text

This option allows SecureCRT to copy ANSI color and font data to the clipboard in RTF format so that it can be pasted into document editors (e.g., Microsoft Word).

Translate incoming CR to CR/LF

This option causes SecureCRT to translate an incoming carriage return character (CR) to a carriage return/line feed character (CR/LF).

Send delay options group

This group contains line and character send delay controls.

Line send delay

This option allows you to set the number of milliseconds that SecureCRT pauses after sending a carriage return. This only applies in the following circumstances:

When text is pasted into the SecureCRT window

When text is sent by selecting the Send ASCII command from the Transfer menu

When data is sent from an ActiveX script using SecureCRT Send() function

Character send delay

This option allows you to set the number of milliseconds that SecureCRT pauses after sending each individual character. This only applies in the following circumstances:

When text is pasted into the SecureCRT window

When text is sent by selecting the Send ASCII command from the Transfer menu

When data is sent from an ActiveX script using SecureCRT Send() function

Prompt

This option allows you to specify a string to wait for. This only applies in the following circumstances:

When text is pasted into the SecureCRT window

When text is sent by selecting the Send ASCII command from the Transfer menu

When data is sent from an ActiveX script using SecureCRT Send() function

Max wait

This option is used in conjunction with the Prompt option to specify the maximum number of milliseconds to wait. A value of 0 indicates that SecureCRT will pause until the prompt is received.