Category: Linux / IS-IT

License: See Home Page

Limitations :

OS: Console/X11

Size: 2.73 MB (2,858,567 bytes)

Introduction: This program offers a consistent and portable approach toserial and network communications, file transfer,character-set translation, and numeric and alphanumericpaging. It is available for hundreds of differentplatforms including all varieties of UNIX, as well as VMS,Stratus VOS, DG AOS/VS. It works inconjunction with its companion programs on Windows3.x/9x/NT/2000, DOS, IBM Mainframes, and almost any otherplatform you can think of.As a serial communications program, the program includes asophisticated location-independent dialer and dialingdirectory, allowing the same entries to be used from anycountry or area within a country. On TCP/IP networks,the program can act as Telnet client, Rlogin client, or as aserver that can be accessed from clients elsewhere on thenetwork. It can also make and use Sun and IBM X.25connections.It also offers online sessions with session logging,character-set translation, and key mapping; character-settranslation for Western and Eastern European languages,Cyrillic, Japanese, Greek, and Hebrew duing both terminalconnection and file transfer (a unique feature of Kermitsoftware), and in version 7.0 also Unicode.Kerberos, SRP, and SSL/TLS security are available withinthe constraints of U.S. export law.