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SOFTWARE: Announcing Kermit 95 1.1.12 32-bit communication software for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank da Cruz)
Sat Jun 14 01:37:33 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:05:05 -0400
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Reply-To: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Reply-to: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Kermit 95 is 32-bit serial and network communications software for OS/2,
Windows 95, and Windows NT, supporting direct serial and modem connections,
TCP/IP Telnet and Rlogin, and various other networking methods, and offering
more than 25 terminal emulations, plus Kermit and XYZMODEM file transfer,
international character-set translation, and a powerful cross-platform
scripting language for easy automation of all communications tasks:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
A major new release of Kermit 95, version 1.1.12, is now available. Its
new features include:
. Support for 10-digit and other special dialing methods
. Support for 132 columns in OS/2 4.0
. File transfer pipes and filters
. Web browser interface ("URL hot spots")
. Greek character-set translation in file transfer and terminal emulation
(added to West & East European Roman, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc, that were
already there)
. Lots more.
The full announcement appears on comp.protocols.kermit.announce, and at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95news.html
Here are a few highlights of the new release:
SPECIAL DIALING METHODS
Kermit 95 is the first software we know of that supports "10-digit dialing"
in the North American Numbering Plan (country code 1), and similar schemes
in other areas, without requiring you to make multiple dialing directory
entries for the same number or resort to other tricks that would interfere
with normal dialing.
Kermit 95 now also allows local calls to be dialed as if they were long
distance, which is required (e.g.) in France.
This new release lets you create a database of dialing locations; using this
database, you can switch among dialing locations with the click of a mouse,
instantly adapting all your dialing rules (including 10-digit dialing, forced
long-distance, etc) to each location as you travel the world with your laptop.
Fill in the information for each location once and K95 remembers it for you;
"set it and forget it."
FILE TRANSFER PIPES AND FILTERS
File transfer pipes and filters open up a whole new world of possibilities:
archive and compress "on the fly" as part of the transfer process; transfer
entire directory trees with a single command; encrypt your file transfers;
add character-set translations of your own that are not already built into
Kermit -- whatever you can think of. Kermit 95's new ability to use pipes
and filters lets you extend its capabilities in practically any direction
you can imagine.
Kermit 95 1.1.12 is available now in single quantities as well as in
inexpensive fully functional bulk right-to-copy and academic site licensed
forms. See the Kermit 95 website for details:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
Thanks to Jeff Altman for most of new features listed above, and to our
many Alpha and Beta testers for helping us with emulations, devices, and
other items we could not test ourselves.
Frank da Cruz & Christine M. Gianone
Managers, The Kermit Project
Columbia University
New York City
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