This topic lists the options available on the File menu including connection, printing, and logging commands.

Opens the Connect dialog where you can connect to or edit existing sessions, or create new sessions. If you choose to open a new session and the current tab or window is disconnected, SecureCRT will display the new session in the current tab or window. If the current tab or window is connected, a new window will be opened.

Opens the Quick Connect dialog. This is the quickest way to define a session and is often used to make one-time connections.

Opens the Connect in Tab/Tile dialog where you can open a session as a new tab or as a new tiled session if you are in tiled mode. If you choose to open a new session and the current tab/tiled session is disconnected, SecureCRT will display the new session in the current tab/tiled session. If the current tab/tiled session is connected, a new tab/tiled session will be opened in the current window.

Opens a local shell session in a tab.

Reconnects you to the session that most recently had focus.

Re-establishes a connection on all currently disconnected sessions (honors the Connect to multiple sessions sequentially option setting).

Disconnects you from the current session.

Disconnects you from all currently connected  sessions.

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Creates a new session that is identical to the current session. For more information, see the Session Tabs topic.

Opens a new tab or tiled session containing an SFTP command line.

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Locks or unlocks the current session.

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Toggles on and off the Auto Print feature. When on, this feature directs terminal output to the printer; each line of output to the terminal screen is sent to the printer as soon as a CR, LF, FF, or VT character is received.

Note:  This output will be buffered by the Windows spooler unless you have enabled the Use raw mode or Direct pass-through printing option in either the Session Options or Global Options dialog.

You can also turn this feature on and off by clicking the Auto Print button located on the SecureCRT toolbar. Selecting Print/Cancel from the File menu, also turns off the Auto Print feature.

Note: If Auto Print is on, the Auto Print button on the toolbar will appear depressed. If auto print is off, the Auto Print button will appear as normal.

Prints the contents displayed in the terminal screen. You can also print the contents of the terminal screen by clicking on the Print Screen button on the SecureCRT toolbar.

Prints the text selected in the terminal screen to the printer. You can also print the currently selected text by clicking on the Print Selection button on the SecureCRT toolbar.

Sends a formfeed command to the printing system.

Cancels all pending SecureCRT print jobs. This will not affect print jobs that are already in the print buffer.

Opens the system Print dialog.

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Records the current session in a log file. When first logging a session, the Save As dialog will appear. Enter the desired log filename and click on the Save button. Also, see the Terminal/Log File category of the Session Options dialog. By default, logging is off.

Writes every character received by SecureCRT , including terminal escape sequences, to the session log file. By default, Raw log is off.

Displays normally hidden protocol negotiation information along with standard information shown in the SecureCRT window.

When SecureCRT attempts to connect to a target server , a great deal of information is passed between the two machines. Most of this information is visible in the SecureCRT window but some of it (the underlying "handshaking" commands) is generally unimportant to the user and is hidden from view. However, there are times when this handshaking information is useful, for example, it can be very valuable when trying to solve a connection problem. For these instances, SecureCRT provides the Trace Options feature which, when turned on, displays the handshaking information.

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Displays the names of the most recently used sessions used to connect to remote machines. The number of session shown can be configured in the Global Options/General dialog.

File Menu and Recently Used Session List

SecureCRT File Menu

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Closes the SecureCRT application.