Anzio Lite

Terry, I have several clients that use Windows 95 to connect to their SCO UNIX backroom system. They previously used a DOS based emualtion program but it had multiple problems runnning under WIN 95. I evaluated several telnet clients that claimed SCO ANSI Console emulation but the function keys did not work properly. Anzio-Lite's SCO ANSI Console emulation worked perfectly under the customer's application. Also, Anzio has several nice features such as auto-sizing of the screen, whether you are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, sizable fonts and support for high IRQ settings for COM ports. This is great especially for laptops using PCMCIA modem cards for remote dial-in using high IRQ settings for the COM ports. Anzio-Lite provided the clients with excellent features, performance, and a low cost solution to their connectivity issues. I can definitley recommend Anzio-Lite a solid, feature-rich and low cost telnet solution. Regards, Leo Clugh leo@keystonenet.com

Sounds like a great recommendation. I dropped a line to Robert Rasmussen requesting that he add a link from http://www.anzio.com to this discussion area. Hopefully, we'll get more discussion on Anzio Light happening.

from the Anzio folks: We have just posted version 11.4 of AnzioWin (our Windows telnet client) for beta testing. This is ONLY AnzioWin, and only the 32-bit version, for now. We invite you to try out its new features and provide feedback. It is NOT yet listed on the web site, but is only at the following FTP location: ftp://ftp.anzio.com/pub/anzio114/anzz32d.exe NEW IN ANZIO 11.4 BETA Following is a desription of the major new features included in AnzioWin and Anzio Lite version 11.4. LOGIN WIZARD The Login Wizard, quite simply, handles logins for you, when you connect to most sites via TCP/IP (telnet). It does this by recognizing common prompts for user name ("login:", "user:", etc.) and password, and responding to them automatically. Of course, to do this it needs to know your username and password. These can be entered through the menu system, and stored in Anzio's settings file (the password is stored encoded). Or, they can be specified as part of an extended URL, as described below. FLEXIBLE URL HANDLING / NAKED PARAMETERS Improvements have been made in the handling of command line parameters (things passed to Anzio when it is started up from the Windows system or from a web browser). Most notably, if a parameter contains a URL which includes a username (and optionally a password), Anzio will strip off and save the username and password and use them with the Login Wizard. For example: you're sitting at a PC, running Internet Explorer, looking at a web page. A cross-reference on the web page refers to the URL: telnet://libcat@somelibrary.com Since you have configured your IE (actually your Windows system) to use Anzio for its telnet, IE starts up Anzio and passes the entire URL as a parameter. Anzio recognizes this, strips off the "telnet://", takes off the "libcat" and saves it as the username, and connects to "somelibrary.com". When prompted for a login, the Login Wizard sends "libcat", and you're logged in. You don't have to log in yourself (or tell someone else how to do it)! FAR-EAST CHARACTER SUPPORT Anzio can now process Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) character output on any Windows 95 or NT system. The Chinese version of windows, for instance, is not required, nor is any add-on package such as UnionWay or MASS. Just update your PC for the correct language support, by going to Microsoft's update page for Internet Explorer, such as http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/lang/lang.htm for IE version 3. Download and execute the correct package, and it will add one or more fonts and translation tables to your system. Now run Anzio. Choose for your screen font (and printer font) the font and "script" that match your host system's encoding. Then Anzio recognizes any CJK characters, and displays them correctly. For instance: if you download and install "ie3lpktw.exe", the "Traditional Chinese" update, you will get the font "MingLiu". If you choose this font, the "script" selection will be "Chinese-Big5". You can then connect to a system that outputs characters in the Big-5 encoding scheme. Note that some schemes, such as EACC and CCCII, are not yet supported. But we're working on it... COURIER NEW OEM FONT You can now have Anzio display and print in the Courier New font (which is nicely scalable), but in the OEM character set (which has the often-needed line-drawing characters). This does NOT work on Windows 3.1. TELEVIDEO 965 EMULATION We have added emulation of the Televideo 965 terminal. What else can I say? MULTIPLE TERM TYPES As part of the option negotiation that occurs behind the scenes at the start of a telnet session, the telnet client (in this case Anzio) can tell the host system what kind of terminal it is emulating. This becomes the TERM variable at the host end. The problem is that different host systems might refer to terminals differently. Anzio now lets you specify a group of terminal types, such as "vt320;vt220;vt100". Assuming the host is running up to standards, the host and Anzio will negotiate, and the host will choose the one it likes the best. If you need to connect to a variety of host systems, this allows one configuration of Anzio to work with most of them. BLINKING Some users have applications where displaying blinking information is critical. For others, Anzio's bright background colors are an irritant. With 11.4, users can choose to run with one of the following sets: blink available bright backgrounds blink available dim backgrounds underline available bright backgrounds underline available dim backgrounds bright and dim backgrounds available In the Custom Colors screen, you can choose options in succession by hitting "P". HANGUP A little thing, really -- we added a "hangup" menu item for use with serial modem connections. Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: ras@anzio.com company e-mail: rsi@anzio.com or sales@anzio.com or support@anzio.com ftp://ftp.anzio.com voice: 503-624-0360 http://www.anzio.com fax: 503-624-0760 -================================================================= -To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@anzio.com, in the message body: unsubscribe newsletter end