From the File menu, you can create and open sessions, print the terminal screen, transfer files using ZMODEM, and generate log files.

Opens the New Session Properties dialog box. The keyboard shortcut for New is Alt+N.

Opens the Sessions dialog box. You can list and manage all sessions you have created from this dialog box. The keyboard shortcut for Open is Alt+O.

Disconnects an established connection. The keyboard shortcut for Close is Alt+C.

Opens the Save As dialog box. It saves all properties of the current session into a new session.

Opens the Print dialog box. You can print the text in current screen, scroll buffer or selected area.

Preview the appearance of a printed page.

Opens the Page Setup dialog box. It allows you to customize the layout of a page.

Opens the Transfer submenu.

Send ASCII
Opens an ASCII file and send it to the remote computer.

Send ZMODEM
Opens the Open dialog box and send the file using ZMODEM protocol to the remote computer. You can select the transfer mode as binary or ASCII from the Open dialog box. In most cases, you should run an rz or another similar command in the terminal before choosing this command such as:
  # rz
This command is automatically activated when the Activate ZMODEM automatically option is selected in the ZMODEM page of the Session Properties dialog box.

Receive ZMODEM
Receives remote files into a local folder. It can receive several files at once and saves them to the download folder defined in the ZMODEM page of the Session Properties dialog box. Before choosing this command, you need to run an sz or similar command in the terminal such as:
  # sz file1 file2
This command is automatically activated when the Activate ZMODEM automatically option is selected in the ZMODEM page of the Session Properties dialog box.

Opens the Log submenu.

Start
Opens the Save As dialog box. All received data after choosing this command are logged in the selected file.

Stop
Stops logging and closes file.

Pause
Pauses temporarily. You can enable logging by clicking Resume.

Resume
Resumes paused logging.

Open the log file
Opens the log file in default text editor.

Opens the Properties dialog box for the current session.

Quits the Xshell program.