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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® One of the more powerful yet underutilized parts of the SecureCRT® and SecureFX® applications is the Connect dialog. In this issue, we show you how to use the many options for organizing and launching sessions. Then, in case you have ever struggled with copy and paste behaving differently in your terminal window than in Windows apps, we have two tips on that subject. You can try out several new pre-beta capabilities in the Calls for Testers. If user interface is your favorite part of programming, you'll appreciate the Scripting Essentials chapter on creating dialogs and gathering user input. On the subject of scripting, the online forums are a great source for more information on how to handle changing multiple account passwords, with or without scripts. ------------- 1. Tip: Maximizing the Value of the Connect Dialog -------------------------
The Connect dialog for SecureCRT and SecureFX is built around named sessions allowing you to configure, save, and recall a number of session options. With the Connect dialog, you have several straightforward ways to organize and manage sessions that can save you time and effort, especially if you connect to many hosts, or run shell and file transfer connections to the same server. To read more about how to maximize the potential of the Connect dialog, read the full tip online. ---------------------------------------------------------- Two classic productivity tips for SecureCRT have been revised, giving you a perfect opportunity to make sure you know all you need to about copying and pasting in the SecureCRT terminal emulator. SecureCRT has a number of ways to copy and paste to and from the terminal screen. One option allows you to use familiar Windows copy and paste keystrokes in the terminal window. "Use Windows copy and paste hotkeys" is turned off by default because some users need to send control sequences like CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+F, and CTRL+V to the remote. Terminal or Linux console users have probably developed some timesaving X-Windows habits as well. With SecureCRT, you can keep the X-Windows behavior. The "Copy on select" option automatically copies emulation window text selected with the mouse to the Windows Clipboard. To read the complete copy and paste tips, please visit the Support section of the VanDyke Software website:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ This month's scripting installment from VanDyke Software Support is entitled "Getting Information from the End User". Chapter 6 of the Scripting Essentials guide expands on the InputBox ("fill in the blank" type) and MsgBox ("Yes/No/Cancel" type) functions. Also covered is the InternetExplorer.Application" ActiveX object, a more powerful method, which uses HTML code displayed through Internet Explorer. The "Getting Information" chapter also shows how to use regular expressions, which are a means of identifying patterns in a string of alpha-numeric text. Regular expressions are useful for tasks such as validating a user-supplied IP address. The practical example for Chapter 6 provides instructions and full source code to create a custom input dialog to enter the username and password. To download a PDF copy of the latest Scripting Essentials guide, please visit the VanDyke Software website. --------------------------------------------------------- VanDyke Software development continues to seek users to test new capabilities in pre-beta releases. This month we are looking for users to preview and give us feedback on keyword Keyword highlighting makes available a user-specified list of keywords for real-time highlighting in a session. The capability can be used to highlight session elements like a user prompt, errors, and IP addresses. If you would like to test and provide feedback on the new
keyword highlighting features, please send e-mail toMaureen.Jett@vandyke.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Also available this month for preview and feedback is a pre-beta version of SecureCRT with the ability to use an encrypted password from within a script. Encrypted passwords can also be saved to session .ini files from within a script. To test and provide feedback on this new feature, send e-mail to Maureen.Jett@vandyke.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ready for pre-beta testing in the VanDyke ClientPack is VRALib, an API that allows you to script SSH2 connections from Windows. The API functions can be called from VBScript, C++, or any scripting platform that supports COM. Operations supported include:
--------------------------------------------------------------- With rigorous password policies now a fact of life, we all have plenty of reasons to make those regular password changes as easy and seamless as possible. Two recent forum threads address passwords. First is a post from a SecureCRT user on updating multiple passwords quickly from the Connect dialog and Session Options. Next is the post from forum user rleon, who wants to use SecureCRT to change passwords on a large number of servers. Several possible solutions are discussed, including setting encrypted passwords from a script using a pre-beta version of SecureCRT (see the call for testers above, "Using Encrypted Passwords in Scripts"). --------------------------------------- The official releases of SecureCRT 6.2.2, SecureFX 6.2.2 and ClientPack 6.2.2 were made July 2, 2009. The SecureCRT 6.2 official release makes it fast and easy to change multiple session settings. Changes include:
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