This has become more problematic lately as I'm working quite a bit in minicom. I have a wide monitor and take advantage of this by setting Options->Properties->Appearance->Size and Behavior to 141 columns and 35 rows.

When I'm running minicom, those dimensions don't change, but as soon as I exit back to the shell, the columns change from 141 to 80:

I've tried going to Options->Reset Terminal and this changes the screen to my default black letters on a white background, but the size is still 80 columns and 35 rows.

When this happens, I close the session and have to remember to choose "No" when prompted with, "The current connection file has been modified and has not been saved. Do you want to save this file before you exit?"

When the Appearance setting says, "Scale font, keep rows and columns FIXED", to me this means it should stay "fixed" at 141 x 35 no matter what escape sequence is emitted by the running program.

When the behavior is set to "fixed", can AT ignore a program's escape sequence that changes the number of columns? Or is there some other work around?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Celestial Software\\AbsoluteTelnet

I exported that key and it looks like the important pieces to backup are:

1. "usebooleancolor"="false"
2. "appoptions14"=hex:00,10,26,59,cd,41,b4,27,9a,0d,80,f3,66,e2,01,a5,19
3. "appoptions15"=hex:26,17,b9,2c
4. "FTPDIR"="config"
5. "AVisual"="YES"
6. "STARTUP"="three"
7. "AUTHFORWARD"="yes"
8. "COD"="no"
9. "SUTF8"="yes"

I don't need to know what these control though I can guess about some, what I'm looking for are those items in the above list that could cause something to break if they were imported into a new instance of the same version of AT that they were exported from?

Now when I want to download a binary file over a serial/USB port to another computer (An S100 bus system) It fails to even highlight

Transfer->send->XModem even though I have the correct COM port.

If I first transfer file data using the Arduino IDE to a ESP32 module externally using a different USB port

the suddenly the above "send" is active/highlighted.

A few questions:-

What Serial settings are needed for a USB interface. baud rate, hardware on/off etc.

Why does the "send" not get highlighted every time.

Finally on startup I have to click on "Untitled.tnt" the Unlock to get to then Options and Transfer options. Is there a way on startup to get to this option directly ever time.

The current connection file has been modified and has not been saved. Do you want to save this file before you exit?

set at=C:\program files (x86)\absolutetelnet\program\absolutetelnet.exe 
start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" 
start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" 
start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" 
start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" 
start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Silvermoon\silvermoon-taa.tnt"

 set at=C:\program files (x86)\absolutetelnet\program\absolutetelnet.exe start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" start "AT Session" "%at%" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Silvermoon\silvermoon-taa.tnt" 

Attached is what it looks like when I run the above batch. It tried! :D You'll see AT created five tabs as expected, but the last three are all "Untitled.tnt" for reasons I don't understand. Approach #1 does highlight one issue that I reported previously in the post

Not saving plain password in v11.35

AT thinks it needs to prompt for a password even though I have one filled in, and the issue is that AT -- on an inconsistent basis -- just decides to clear out the password on its on. The main screen in the attached shows tab #2 as it is prompting for a password, and I'm wondering if this is "blocking" AT in some way from properly launching the other three hosts. I suspect tab#1 looks identical since it is for the same host. Approach #2 was to use file extensions to trigger each host connection. Here's the batch file:

 "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Fedora\Blue_Thunder\blue-thunder-taa.tnt" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Big-Sur-I\big-sur-i-taa.tnt" "C:\syncthing-taa-prime\Nexus\Remote Access\AbsoluteTelnet\at_Macintosh\Silvermoon\silvermoon-taa.tnt" 

It launches five separate windows (instances), one for each host, but my goal is to have one window with five tabs. Some other Windows programs let me specify a command line flag that forces there to be only one instance, i.e., if an instance already exists, don't launch another one as a new process. Can AT be enhanced to allow launching multiple configurations from the command line, or at a minimum better handle one at a time from a batch file? P.S. FYI, the post preview option in the forum software hasn't been working for me for months. I get a blank "preview" area below the raw post with

this animated GIF progress bar  <broken link removed>

P.P.S. This is my second attempt to post this. I got an error that public write access was disabled even though I was logged in. P.P.P.S. This is my third attempt to post this. Attempt #2 generated the error, "The image file width exceeds the maximum set by the Administrator. (800 pixels Your image has not been uploaded. Try posting again or editing the post." I clicked on OK and then got, "Your message has been successfully posted. It will be reviewed by a Moderator before it will be published on the forum." Good grief. My image is 1423 x 980 (my screen capture software adds a small border which is why the file name might show as 1419x976, if the filename shows up). I'll attach as a non-image file. Is 800 the maximum height or width and why is it so small in this day of higher resolution monitors? Couldn't the maximum be something more reasonable? Is there even a way to edit a previous post? And what's up with it saying the message was successfully posted? I can't tell. P.P.P.P.S. I'm starting to lose track of how many times it is taking me to post this. I have to keep copying the contents to the clipboard because there doesn't appear to be a way to edit the post before it is no longer pending moderation. I put my screen attachment into a .zip file because only types zip, txt, doc, gz and tgz are allowed. But then it wasn't accepted because it was a 123kb file and the maximum is 120kb. I'll try resizing the 1423x980 image to 800x551 and see if that works. P.P.P.P.P.S. Nope, 800x551 fits within the resolution limit but exceeds the 150kb size limit. The 800x551 image is 177kb. Going to try resizing to 640x441 and file size of 141kb. https://www.celestialsoftware.net/images/fbfiles/images/Screenshot___2_16_2023___1_26_38_PM___1419x976_ver001_resized_to_640x441.png

Instead, I'm looking for the Absolute Telnet 11.24 equivalent of the remote command in Putty.

The goal is to be able to create a shell instance at shell.sourceforge.net using the steps here: <broken link removed>

The Putty specific steps are here:  <broken link removed>

It works fine in Putty. How do I do this in Absolute Telnet?