WIN100 William S. Hall 3665 Benton Street, #66 Santa Clara, CA, 95051 Internet address: william@novell.com MCI Mail: wshall WIN100 is a vt100/vt52 terminal emulator with Kermit for Microsoft Windows. Although the program is still undergoing development, the program has enough features to make it quite usable and is being made available to the Kermit distribution network. Source code is not yet available for release. However, eventually both source and binary files will be published. The files contained here replace the previously released WN100K.EXE. The current distribution consists of the following files: 1. WIN1002.BOO - A Windows 2.x version of the program which has also been marked to run in Windows 3.0. Use MSBPCT (available from the Kermit distribution center) to recover the executable WIN100.EXE. Run this program only if you do not yet have Windows 3.0. Except for bug fixes, this program will not receive further development. 2. WN1003.BOO - A Windows 3.0 version of the program. Use MSBPCT to obtain the executable WIN100.EXE. 3. WIN100D.BOO - Documentation in Windows Write for WIN100. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100.WRI. This file was formatted for an HP LaserJet printer. You may need to reformat some of the tables if you use some other printer. 4. WN100P.BOO - A Windows Paint file which contains the figures referenced in the documentation. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100.MSP, which can be viewed in either Windows Paint or PaintBrush. 5. WN100F.BOO - A font file for WIN100.EXE which is suitable for VGA displays. Use MSBPCT to recover the file WIN100E.FON. To install the program just copy it to a suitable directory and run it from there. If you want to use the fonts, install them with the control panel. You can print the documentation directly from Write. The figures will print best onto a LaserJet printer from Paint. If you print from PaintBrush, set your printer to Landscape mode and expect the output to split over two pages. This shortcoming will be rectified soon. WIN100 for Windows 2.x does not contain an internal icon, so if you install it in a program group, you will get a default icon from the Program Manager. Notes The font selection dialog box requires you to exit the program for the font change to take effect. A font file has been supplied to support DEC special graphics and bolding. Windows normally does bolding by widening character glyphs. In terminal emulation, this results in misaligned columns or partial overwrites. To eliminate this unsightly behavior, we have supplied normal and bold fonts in both the ANSI and DEC special graphics character sets. The fonts are digitized for the VGA and may be too large for use on an EGA or Hercules display. If you elect not to use the supplied font, then bold characters will most likely not display very well and you will not have DEC special graphics. Ultimately, I will try to supply fonts designed for other displays, but the job is formidable. Assistance with this task would be greatly appreciated. Because a vt100 and vt52 are strictly 7 bit terminals, WIN100 does not yet support the full ANSI character set. Future releases will lift this restriction. The current emulation in WIN100 extends beyond vt100 and includes most of the features of the vt101, vt102, and vt132 DEC terminals. Wide and double high characters are not yet supported. The Kermit support includes 1, 2, and 3 byte checksums, eight bit quoting, and run length encoding. Basic protocol and packet parameters can be modified. Currently there is no server support nor can long packets be used. Basic server commands have a high priority and will be added as soon as possible. The Kermit commands are not yet documented, but for the most part you should have no trouble in using these features. However, picking files to send may be somewhat confusing. It may help to know that the list box used to choose files to send allows multiple selection. You are not restricted to sending one file at a time. Note that if you run the Windows 2 version in Windows 3, multiple selection will not work the same. You will be happier with the 3.0 version. To change directories and drives in WIN100, use the Kermit Send dialog box to move about. When you get to the desired directory, cancel. Version Information Windows 2.x: Base Version 2.2, 09/24/90 Current Version 2.3, 10/09/90. Fixed problem in Kermit receive which caused the program to enter an infinite loop when decompressing files. Windows 3.0: Base Version 2.2, 09/24/90. Current Version 2.4, 10/10/90. Fixed problem in Kermit receive which caused the program to enter an infinite loop when decompressing files. Added program icon. Replaced protocol and packets parameter selection list boxes by combo boxes.