Celestial Software

Do this for me....

After you click 'new connection file', but before you click OK, check the 'Appearance' tab and tell me what the 'rows' and 'columns' values are.

Brian,

Rows are 24 and columns are 2500.

I actually need columns to be extended because I run a lot of SQL queries from my telnet session and the data would be completely garbled if it word-wrapped.

If the column size is the problem would there be a way to prevent this external sizing from happening regardless of the size?

Jason

What you are experiencing is definitely related to the 2500 character width.

Try this...

1. Set the columns to 2500
2. Enable the horizontal scroll bar (Appearance tab)
3. Set the window size the way you want it
4. Set other connection parameters
5. Save this configuration to a .tnt file on your desktop
6. Close Absolute
7. Re-open Absolute by double-clicking the .tnt file.

Absolute is trying to set the size of the window when you create a new connection file based off of your selected font size, rows, columns etc.

Re-opening an existing session file will restore all of your preferences including window size.

Brian,

That works, but its a bit odd to have to open all additional tabs by going back to my desktop and double clicking the tnt file. Any chance you might put in a fix for future releases so that doesn't have to be done?

Thanks for the help.

Jason

That's not the only way to open them.

If it was opened recently, you will find it on the MRU list on the File-> menu. Or, you can use the File->Open menu to get a list of connections to open in a given folder.

For example, lets say you create a folder called 'connections' on the desktop and drop .tnt files in there for each host you connect to. If absolute is not running, you can open this folder and double-click a connection file to start AbsoluteTelnet with thos parameters. Double-clicking another connection file will open a second tab, etc... Inside of Absolute, you can open a third tab by choosing a connection from the MRU list or clicking File->Open to choose from all of the session files in your 'connections' folder.

I prefer to keep my connections on the task bar's quick-launch bar. This way they are always handy.

It's really quite a flexible way to maintian the config info if you take some time to get comfortable with it.

Jason,

Has everything worked out ok? I just wanted to check and make sure you were satisfied with the solution we came up with..

Regards,

Brian