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What it should do
Allow Secure (SSH) telnet links to remote machines from the Newton.
What is the point of such an app
The size of the Newton simply screams "made for telnet". Access to
shell accounts provides users with fast, direct access to a huge variety of
remote services from general Internet functions (lynx, tin, pine, ircii, and
ftp) to specialist computer functions and number crunching power for professionals.
Many people are unwilling, or unable, to use these services without the capacity
of making a secure link to the remote machine. This App would do it.
How to do it
This would require either a new telnet app, or the adaptation of an existing
one that is available to developers. By far the best solution would be to add
SSH to PT100, the Newton's telnet client. PT100 is everything that a user could
want for a telnet client, with this one glaring SSH exception.
Status
The project was "temporarily
suspended". Keep your fingers crossed...
Contact person
vlad at newted dot com