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AniTa is the terminal emulator that gives new life to your text based UNIX applications. It was evaluated as the "best Windows terminal emulator for UNIX applications" according to a leading UNIX supplier.
AniTa makes your text based application look like a Windows application. It gives you 3-D box attributes, color support and adds a graphical touch to your character based applications. Anita also adds multimedia support to your text applications and can interface with other Windows applications providing seamless integration. All this helps extend the life of your UNIX solutions.
AniTa is a 32-bit program which can run on Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 workstations. A 16-bit AniTa (version 3) is also available for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups users and contains most of the features of the 32-bit version.
Over 100,000 copies installed in more than 60 countries worldwide.
AniTa supports a wide range of terminal emulations including VT100, VT220, VT320, ANSI, Wyse50, Wyse60, SCO Console, System V Console, Adds Viewpoint and TN3270 emulations. The number of columns and rows supported is configurable and switchable, such that AniTa will switch between 80 and 132 column output when it receives the command from the host.
The easy to configure, 3-D box and color options, allow you to assign such attributes even when running an existing application written for text based monochrome screens. Alternatively the color can be controlled from the host with ANSI, ASCII or DEC VT525 color commands.
AniTa runs over TCP/IP, NetBIOS and Asynchronous transports.
The TCP/IP transport uses Windows Sockets (WSOCK32 or WINSOCK) and supports both Telnet and Rlogin. This can be used either on a LAN or from a remote PC in which case auto-dial functionality is provided.
The Asynchronous connection can be used at speeds of up to 256K bps over a Modem or direct connection. Connection via modem can be automatically dialed and the session established.
AniTa provides preset keyboard mappings for most common terminal and host combinations. The easy to use keyboard configuration, allows you to reconfigure any key on the keyboard. Keys can be configured to send data to the host, but also to perform local functions such as starting the Windows email client and creating a letter to an email address taken from the AniTa screen.
AniTa supports terminal printing and screen dump printing. Printers can be local, connected to the AniTa workstation, or remote, connected via a network.
Screen dump printing can be initiated by either the user or the host. Printing can be in color or black-and-white and the fonts can be scaled to fit the printer paper. Page eject can be suppressed so that multiple screens can be dumped to the same laser printer page.
Terminal printing allows the host to transparently send data to a PC printer. Printing to three different terminal printers and to a print file is supported.
AniTa supports the Kermit and X/Y/Z-Modem protocols for the transfer of files between the host and the client PC.
An FTP client is included to provide file transfer via TCP/IP with features such as translation of both text file format and character set. Both 32-bit and 16-bit versions of the FTP client are available. The FTP client can be run interactive or script-driven. When using scripts, just create a clickable icon on the desktop for automatic transfer of files. An in-built site-manager simplifies access to many different host computers.
AniTa has inbuilt protection from unintentional changes to the configuration. Settings can be locked or unlocked on an individual basis. Change of these locks is then protected by an administrator password.
AniTa can automatically logon to the host computer. It is also possible to automatically execute a program or application after logon. Hidden logon can be configured so the screen remains blank until the program is executed, thus user just sees his application and not the login sequence.
As might be expected for a program written in Sweden, where the developers have 29 letters in the alphabet of their mother tongue, AniTa provides full and easy to use support for international character sets and keyboards. In addition the menus and help are available in a number of different languages.
AniTa is also provided as part of Fusion95, which makes your UNIX machine into a powerful File and Printer Server in a Windows PC network. UNIX disks and files can be used by the Windows PCs as normal network resources. UNIX applications can print to PC printers and PC users can print to all UNIX printers.
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