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1 510 ConnectBot
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3 Copyright (c) 2014 Carl Byington <carl@five-ten-sg.com>
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5 Enhanced and properly relicensed under GPLv3 or later, since that is compatible
6 with major parts that are Apache2 and other parts that are GPLv2 or later.
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8
9 VX ConnectBot
10 =========
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12 Copyright (c) 2012 Martin Matuška <martin at matuska dot vx dot sk>
13
14 ## Description
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16 VX ConnectBot is an enhanced version of the popular open-source telnet and secure shell (SSH) client ConnectBot.
17
18 ## Features and enhancements
19
20 - based on ConnectBot 1.7.1
21 - background file transfer (SCP protocol)
22 - screen capture (save a PNG screenshot of the console)
23 - character picker dialog (on-screen and hardware SYM keys)
24 - single line input (on-screen key)
25 - tap-and-hold to toggle full screen mode or change font size
26 - tap-and hold on on-screen buttons with various manus
27 - ssh-agent from Roberto Tyley
28 - X11 forwarding support
29
30 ### New key mappings:
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32 - ALT + Up Arrow maps to Page Up
33 - ALT + Down Arrow maps to Page Down
34 - ALT + Left Arrow maps to Home
35 - ALT + Right Arrow maps to End
36 - ALT + Backspace maps to Insert
37 - Search key maps to URL scan
38
39 ## Device Customization
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41 VX ConnectBot aims to provide customizations for Android devices with a physical keyboard.
42 Currently, there are customizations for the following devices:
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44 - Full hardware keyboard (e.g. external bluetooth keyboard)
45 - ASUS Transformer Pad Series Mobile Dock
46 - Samsung Captivate Glide (SGH-i927)
47 - Sony Ericsson Xperia pro (MK16i)
48 - Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro (SK17i)
49
50 The following devices with physical keyboards are also reported to work properly:
51 - Motorola Droid 4 (XT894)
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53 Individual key mappings can be viewed [here](http://connectbot.vx.sk/customkeymap.html)
54
55 ## License
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57 VX ConnectBot is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
58
59 ## Download
60
61 [VX Connectbot Homepage](http://connectbot.vx.sk)
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63 [VX Connectbot on Android Market](https://market.android.com/details?id=com.five_ten_sg.connectbot)
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65 ## Credits
66
67 This software is based on [ConnectBot](http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/)
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69 ConnectBot Copyright (c) 2007-2011 [Kenny Root](http://the-b.org), [Jeffrey Sharkey](http://jsharkey.org)
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71 Based in part on the [Trilead SSH2 client](http://www.trilead.com), provided under a BSD-style license. Copyright (c) 2007 Trilead AG.
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73 Also based on [JTA Telnet/SSH client](http://www.javassh.org), provided under the GPLv2 license. Copyright (c) Matthias L. Jugel, Marcus Meiner 1996-2005.
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75 Also based in part on the [JSOCKS](http://jsocks.sourceforge.net) library, provided under the GNU LGPL license. (c)
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77 Also based in part on [JZlib](http://www.jcraft.com) provided under a BSD-style license. Copyright (c) JCraft, Inc., 2000-2004
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79 This software includes modifications from [Irssiconnectbot](https://github.com/irssiconnectbot/irssiconnectbot) developed by Iiro Uusitalo and Ville Kerminen.
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81 This software includes the [ssh-agent](https://github.com/rtyley) service developed by Roberto Tyley.
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83 SCP file transfer support is badsed on [modifications](https://github.com/staktrace/connectbot/commits/filetransfer) by Kartikaya Gupta.
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85 Internal file selection dialog is based on [Android File Dialog](http://code.google.com/p/android-file-dialog/) by Alexander Ponomarev, provided under a BSD-style license.