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SSH Clients for Palm OS 5?

Posted by Cliff on from the software-ported-to-the-latest-OS-rev dept.

oosid asks: "I have recently upgraded my Sony Clie T-616 to an NX-60 with the built in keyboard, larger screen, and a WI-FI card. I have been searching for a good terminal emulator/ssh client and have found nothing worthy. Am I totally missing something, or is there really nothing out there? It would be awesome to be able to take advantage of the excellent screen and keyboard in my favorite wireless coffee shop."

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  1. Don't Palm owners have their own websites? by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a kind of shitty question.

    One suspects it's more of an advert

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  2. Top result from Google by Kris_J · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.palmpowerenterprise.com/issues/issue200 206/sshclient001.html And, yeah, I think the post looks like an ad too.

  3. Here by skinfitz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh lemme see - three seconds of googling results in this:

    http://www.ai/~iang/TGssh/

    As you obviously haven't heard of Google, you should check it out.

    1. Re:Here by .@. · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Perhaps they meant SSH2. TGssh, and every other Palm client I've seen, is only SSH1.

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    2. Re:Here by erth64net · · Score: 3, Informative

      SSH2: http://www.mochasoft.dk/palm.html

  4. Try freewarepalm.com by m_evanchik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try freewarepalm.com, which is generally a good place for free (beer) software.

    I found this link through it:

    http://netpage.em.com.br/mmand/ptelnet.htm

    It's a terminal emulator and not really an ssh client but maybe it will help.

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  5. It might be getting out of hand by Coyote67 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Am I alone in feeling that lately slashdot has turned into a personalized search engine. I feel like I'm visiting that old miningco search engine that let you ask real questions and people would look it up for you.
    What the frell is wrong with the editors and the submitters. Do some freakin research!

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    1. Re:It might be getting out of hand by RevAaron · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, I feel the same way. I'm sure a lot of others do, considering how half of the posts we see in the Ask Slashdots today are full of "try google retard!" It wouldn't seem that far out for a /. editor to spend the 3 seconds to do so (google for palmos ssh client) that the poster didn't, and reject based on the ease of which something would be found.

      Or, there might be more of an agenda here. Perhaps the editor which posted this is a Zaurus user, and figured a lot of people would be like "H4h4 my Z can dooo it! PalmOS and WinCE CAN'T DO SSH! Hehahaaehe!" Followed by a bunch of suggestions for the user to buy an SL-5500. Maybe I'm just being paranoid though. ;)

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  6. It's no ad AFAIK by Xenna · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to have a Nokia 9210 which had a Mocha telnet client that worked great for remote maintenance. I could do simple maintenance stuff whil on holiday.

    I now have a Clie TG50 which is a great little tool with keyboard, color, bluetooth and all. I am very disappointed by the SSH software available too.

    Mocha telnet for the Palm just crashes and Topgun SSH, well... The terminal emulator just sucks. Try to use vi on it!

    I would have expected the popularity of the Palm platform to lead to a lot of good Ssh apps, but this doesn't seem to be the case so far.

    Yeah, I know I should write one myself...

    X.

    1. Re:It's no ad AFAIK by snubber1 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Login to your server with TGSSH, and then type 'screen'

      It will be a world of difference.

      Depending on what your doing, it might also help to add a TGSSH termcap entry.

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    2. Re:It's no ad AFAIK by snubber1 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes, I have a palm Vx and a omnisky wireless modem with service from AT&T. Tab completeion works, you just have to send the partial letters and the tab, and not a carrige return. I've repaired mail servers without going indoors using only TGSSH.

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  7. Re:the frustration I have with the palm... by BenjyD · · Score: 2, Informative

    If this is happening, it's bad coding. Passing false as the 'immediate' boolean parameter in the NetLibClose call on closing an app leaves the current connection open for a user-specified delay time before actually closing the connection, so another program can use it.

  8. What you want is Online by davros74 · · Score: 2, Informative

    When I first got my Tungsten T I wanted a good telnet/SSH app but couldn't find one. All I could find was MochaTelnet, ptelnet, and TGSSH, all of which either were incompatible with OS5, weren't compatible with SSH2, or just had such ugly fonts that I couldn't see what I was doing.

    Then I found this program:
    Online

    It supports telnet and SSH. It supports file download with X-Modem, Y-Modem to VFS. And most important, it supports HIRES, so you can do a full 80x24 terminal mode and stil read it. On a fast enough connection (say GPRS), using VIM is totally usable.

    It's definitely worth the $30.