The help that comes with SpectaShell, to read before you install it: how to connect to your hosts, keep shells running, work in the terminal, and share with a team.
A host is a machine you log in to over SSH: a server, a NAS, a router, a cloud machine, another Mac.
A shell in SpectaShell can outlive the connection that opened it.
A window holds terminal tabs, and each tab can be split into panes, side by side or stacked, each pane with a shell of its own.
Your shells are not the only thing on your hosts that you need.
Besides SSH, a host can be a serial port — a board's or a router's console on a USB adapter — or a telnet session, for a console server, a network lab or a device without SSH.
Each of your devices logs in to your hosts with a key of its own, made on the device and never copied off it.
A team is a group of hosts you share with other people.
On an iPad or an iPhone, SpectaShell is a terminal to your other machines: a server, a NAS, your Mac.
Every shortcut on the Mac is an item of the menu bar, so you can also find each one there, beside the command it gives.
SpectaShell has no account of its own.
Some things other terminals do, SpectaShell leaves out on purpose, and a few are still to come.
When a shell is not simply running, a line under its pane takes the place of the status line and says why, with what you can do about it.