VT/100 Telent Client for Windows Vista

PASSPORT VT/100 Telnet Client

Cut Costs for Accessing UNIX® Systems

The PASSPORT VT/100 Telnet Client includes high quality, reliable VT/100 access to UNIX® systems from Windows Vista® desktops.

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The PASSPORT VT/100 Telnet Client is extremely cost effective. Zephyr provides a subscription based licensing program that reduces your telnet program acquisition cost and maintenance cost significantly. This makes upgrading from another VT/100 telnet client a very attractive proposition.

Zephyr has a solid history of developing telnet clients and innovative host access solutions. Founded in 1985, Zephyr is a Microsoft Certified Solution Partner, Citrix Premier Alliance Partner, a member of IBM PartnerWorld for Developers, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), Cisco Enterprise Associates Program (EAP), and the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Deployment

There are actually two PASSPORT telnet client suites. Each product uses a different method of deployment.

PASSPORT PC TO HOST® is a desktop-based VT/100 telnet client that includes VT/100 telnet for UNIX® systems, in addition to TN3270, TN5250, SCO ANSI, Wyse 60 and FTP clients. This product is similar to other desktop-based Windows programs. PASSPORT is installed with a Windows setup program. It can also be deployed using SMS, MSI, Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Server.

PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® is a web-based VT/100 telnet client that includes VT/100 telnet for UNIX® systems, in addition to TN3270, TN5250, SCO ANSI, Wyse 60 and FTP clients, and features an ActiveX client that is deployed from a web server. The VT/100 telnet client is installed on a web server and provides an administrator program for centralized configuration and administration. All software and configuration files reside on the web server. When the telnet client is run, an ActiveX applet is downloaded from the web server to the client desktop and run inside Internet Explorer. The ActiveX client running inside Internet Explorer makes a direct VT/100 connection to the DEC or UNIX® host system.

Host Connection Support

PASSPORT supports the telnet host access features defined in the IETF Telnet specifications, DEC VT52, DEC VT100, VT220 and VT420 Programmer's Reference manuals. Telnet terminal emulation uses the TCP/IP Internet protocol for communication between a telnet client and a telnet server. PASSPORT is compatible with all DEC and UNIX® hosts that adhere to these specifications. Both 7-bit and 8-bit VT emulation are supported.

PASSPORT provides a method to specify the text string used for the Telnet device type. PASSPORT uses the standard telnet device types "VT52", "VT100", "VT220" and "VT420". However, some VT hosts may require a non-standard telnet device type such as "DEC-VT220". Auto-reconnect is a configurable option that can automatically re-establish the emulator session after a telnet logoff is performed. Hot back up for connection to alternate IP host names is also provided.

Configuration Options

Some of the VT/100 configuration options for PASSPORT include:

Return Key
The Return Key may be set to CR (Carriage Return) or CRLF (a combination of Carriage Return and Line Feed.)

Answer Back Message
This option is used to establish a question and answer sequence between the host and the client. This message is limited to 20 characters. The answerback message is typically used to identify the terminal to the host by sending a message to the host automatically, without operator action. Hexadecimal is represented by the tilde and hex number. (An hexadecimal example is ~0D for hex 13, which represents the 13th ASCII character sequence.)

Local Echo
This option echoes back each character typed; for instance, when p3 is typed, pp33 is displayed back because the host will also send back the p and the 3.

Wrap Around
The Wrap around option permits typing beyond the 80-character limitation (on an 80 character-wide screen) by wrapping the continued line on to the next line.

Line Transmit Mode
This option sends an entire line. Compare this to the normal character transmit mode, where each character is sent on a character-by-character basis.

Reverse Screen Image
This option reverses the background and foreground colors. For instance, the customary black background with green letters becomes a green background with black letters.

Scroll Speed
Determines the speed at which lines will scroll on the emulation screen (from 1 to 100; default is 5). When this option is disabled, lines of data will scroll as fast as they are received from the host.

Pass-Through Printing

Zephyr's PASSPORT provides pass-through printing for VT/100 sessions. PASSPORT can be configured to bypass the Windows printer driver to send print jobs directly to the printer without interpretation by the Windows printer driver. This removes the form feed sent by the driver at the end of print jobs.

PASSPORT can also be configured to disable printer translation. With printer translation disabled, character translation is prevented and characters are printed exactly as they are delivered by the host. No character set translation is made from the host code page to the PC code page.

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Quicktrial or Download Options

There are two ways to evaluate the PASSPORT VT/100 telnet client: either download a copy of the software or do a QuickTrial of the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® application. With QuickTrial, there is no server installation, you simply download the client from our web server. This is a fast and easy way to look at the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® software. For those that want to install the PASSPORT WEB TO HOST® software on their own web server, you can download the full working copy of the software and complete a full evaluation.