Re: Re: Where is everyone?

On Thursday 28 January 2010 5:59:20 pm Arnold Cavazos Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:54:50PM -0600, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 January 2010 9:41:16 am Arnold Cavazos Jr. wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:43:39PM -0600, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > > > > > By the way, I got an HTC droid eris about Christmas time and it
> > > > > > is a fantastic machine.  Knows were I am thanks to GPS and has
> > > > > > access to much of the web, has camera and camcorder, makes the
> > > > > > weather in Andover available and much more.  However, sometimes I
> > > > > > miss having a console. Does anyone know of an Android app to
> > > > > > provide a console?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bruce
> > > > >
> > > > > ConnectBot.
> > > > > Terminal Emulator.
> > > > >
> > > > > Both in Android Market.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Arnold.
> > > > Not sure yet how to use connectBot.
> > > > The terminal emulator and better emulator give me a command line, but
> > > > no keyboard.  The HTC Eris has only a virtual keyboard.
> > > > bruce
> > >
> > > I have a soft keyboard as well.  With ConnectBot a long press on the
> > > menu key toggles the keyboard.  Here is a good reference for ConnectBot
> > > and a soft keyboard:
> > >
> > > http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/wiki/UsageWithSoftKeyboard
> >
> > Wow! great!  Haven't been able to connect yet, though.  Get "Host has
> > disconnected."
> >
> > And have to keep removing the keyboard because the words are always down
> > under the keyboard.  typing blind.
> > Still, a great app.
>
> To get a console session going on a non-rooted version of Android, you
> have to touch the dropdown that says 'ssh' and change it to 'local'.

Thanks, Arnold.  It seems to connect "bruce@blacky"; the screen says 
"connecting to blacky:22 via ssh"
"blacky - blacky" 
If I press the phone key and then the back key, it flashes "bruce@blacky"
but typing doesn't produce characters on the screen.  And of course I can't 
disconnect.

I hate to keep bothering you when I'm just fooling around, but it _is_ fun.  I 
can always mount it and transfer data to and from the sdcard so I can't 
imagine why I would really need to hook up using connectbot.  
bruce