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
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