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I work for a company that has been using the TinyTERM Terminal Emulator for at least 20 years now. Here is a link to the program's description:
http://www.centurysoftware.com/products/tinyterm-terminal-emulator.php
It basically is a way for employees to pull up past invoices and reports and is used company wide (main office and thirty satellite locations).
Every time I look at it I can't help but think that it's wildly antiquated and with technology today there has to be a more elegant program that's been designed. It's a program that's completely text based.
Does anyone know of any modern examples of this style of program? One with more image based and intuitive features would be preferred as our IT department has to help so many new employees (and existing employees) learn the system and it's features, but any newer program will do for now as I am just in the research phase.
3The problem is that your application is TTY-oriented. You're not going to be able to improve things much without redoing the application side. (Though probably there are TTY terminal programs that at least use nice fonts, and black on white.) – Daniel R Hicks – 2012-01-06T20:44:34.870
3TinyTERM is a terminal emulator and all it does is connect to some remote server. It does not by itself handle your invoices and reports; that is done by some other program. – user1686 – 2012-01-06T20:48:06.010
Oh ok, I see. As you can see I'm just beginning to learn how these systems work, this is a good start to understanding it, thank you! – MxmastaMills – 2012-01-07T16:49:28.483
I've looked further into this within the company and TinyTERM is emulated a Telnet connection and just connecting to our local server that stores our invoices and reports. There's no other program handling the reports (or organizing them), it's just connected straight to it and grabbing the information. I'm basically looking for some sort of program that can more easily and intuitively do this. Does anyone know of any (I can't seem to find what I'm looking for)? – MxmastaMills – 2012-01-09T20:09:32.507