Tera Term setup file

Tera Term is initialized by information contained in the setup file when Tera Term is started, or when the [Setup] Restore setup command is executed.
The file name of the setup file can be specified as a command line parameter of Tera Term. If you omit the file name extension, the default extension ".INI" is used.

The changed configurations in is not saved to set up file automatically. To save the current setup into the setup file, execute the [Setup] Save setup command.

The file encoding of setup file is UTF-16 (with LE BOM). For more information, please refer to the "About Tera Term 5" page.

Configuration settings of the Tera Term setup file

All items of Tera Term setup file

Special options in the Tera Term setup file

You need to edit the Tera Term setup file directly to change the following setup items:

Terminal emulation

• Back wrap
• The motion receiving BEL character
• Disabling the C1 (ASCII $80-$9F) control characters
• Send C1 (ASCII $80-$9F) control characters
• Displaying all received characters
• Disabling the status line
• Mouse code in TEK GIN report
• Displaying tab at end of line like VT terminal
• Scroll down the current buffer when the screen is clear
• Mapping of Unicode to DEC special character
• Mapping of the function key
• Sending MSB set character with Alt key
• Disabling the alternate screen buffer
• Configure Terminal Unique ID
• Changing Terminal Unique ID
• Disabling tabstop modification
• Limited BEL Over
• Flash time when Beep is Visual Bell
• Disabling ISO/IEC 2022 shift function
• Use as 7-bit JIS KATAKANA (dedicated) terminal
• Decode invalid UTF-8 characters as CP932

Window

• Disabling auto text copying
• Delimiters of a word selected by double clicking
• Disabling the pop-up menu
• Hiding the "Show menu bar" command
• Maximum scroll buffer size
• Nonblinking cursor
• Maximum number of lines to move in a jump scrolling
• Disabling text selection when the window is activated by mouse
• Title format
• Actual colors of "white" and "black" colored text
• Space between characters (lines)
• Hiding the [Window] menu
• How to scroll the screen when the window size is maximized
• Display the cursor even if the window comes out of focus
• Fix the initial window position
• Save the window position
• Change the window icon
• Delay for starting of text selection.
• Don't round window corners

Communication

• Maximum serial port number
• Don't clear COM buffer when serial port opening
• Disabling the warning on TCP/IP disconnection
• Telnet binary option
• Telnet echo option
• Telnet log
• Telnet port number / Terminal setup for non-telnet connection
• Disable Auto-Detect mode of Telnet command
• Disabling "Line at a time" mode
• Pause time while the break signal is sending to the serial port
• Automatic COM port Reconnection
• Change the terminal speed notifies to server

File transfer

• Auto renaming of a received file to avoid overwriting
• Auto activation of B-Plus Receive
• Escaping all control characters in the B-Plus protocol
• B-Plus log
• Kermit log
• XMODEM log
• Receive command for XMODEM
• Timeout settings for XMODEM
• YMODEM log
• Timeout settings for YMODEM
• Auto activation of ZMODEM Receive / Send
• Parameters for ZMODEM sending
• Escaping all control characters in the ZMODEM protocol
• ZMODEM log
• Receive command for ZMODEM
• Timeout settings for ZMODEM
• File name filter for send file dialog
• File name filter for receive file dialog
• Confirmation of File Transfer by Drag & Drop
• File Transfer Dialog is hidden
• High Speed File Transfer on Serial Connection
• Skip Send file dialog
• Skip Receive file dialog

Printing

• Delay of path-through printing
• Path-through printing directly to a port
• Disabling the printing by the control sequence
• Disabling the form-feed in the path-through printing
• Printer font
• Page margins
• Scaling factors for printing

Miscellaneous

• Beep sound on connection
• Executing a macro on startup
• User interface language file
• Number for the history of broadcast command
• Mouse wheel action in application cursor mode
• Showing "New Connection" dialog on startup
• Enable paste by clicking the middle button of mouse
• Disable "New connection" menu
• Disable "Duplicate session" menu
• Disable "Send break" menu
• Clear the screen when disconnected
• Disable accelerator key of New Connection
• Disable accelerator key of Duplicate session
• Disable accelerator key of Cygwin connection
• A browser by using Clickable URL
• Exclusive-lock log file
• Deferred log write mode
• Specify timestamp format at the start of log file's line
• UTC is used at timestamp format of the start of log file's line
• High DPI Aware
• Auto backup of Tera Term setup file
• Support bracketed paste
• Limit bracketed pasting to cases containing control characters

TTSSH

• How to display authentication banner
• Suppressing message box
• Minimum group size for Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange
• log level
• Sign algorithm order of RSA publickey authentication
• Destination display for X11 transfer