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4 February 2014: Winet 6.41 released

Inet3270WebServer.

Web 3270 client side components have been enhanced for a better experience when using Smartphone or Tablet browsers.

Maintenance.

Various bugs have been fixed.

30 October 2013: Winet 6.40 released

Unicode support.

3270, 5250 and VTx00 now support Unicode fonts for display and printing of all available glyphs.

3270 enhancements.

3270 support for viewing configurable number of history screens. Copying from and printing of a history screen is possible.

VTx00 enhancements.

VTx00 can be configured as a UTF-8 terminal.

VT double height/double width characters supported.

VT code pages properly implemented.

Many more sequences implemented and all sequences documented.

Inet3270WebServer.

Improvements for better handling of colors, overlays and devices like mobile phones and tablets.

21 November 2012: Winet 6.39 released

Web3270 updated.

Resizable fonts, more function buttons, better keyboard handling and a tool to enter special characters have been implemented.

3287 Multiple printer Print services released.

The 3287 print service can handle multiple 3287 print sessions simultaneously. The service is controlled by a GUI program on the server and can be monitored by multiple clients on remote machines.

T27 Printer Print Through implemented.

15 June 2012: Winet 6.38 released

Web3270 released.

Web3270 is a program suite enabling the use of standard browsers as the user interface to a mainframe computer. This is accomplished with a special Windows Web server, Inet3270WebServer, that connects multiple sessions to multiple mainframes and serves the 3270 screens to browser sessions using the AJAX protocol. This system eases the roll-out of 3270 terminal emulators considerably.

19 September 2011: Winet 6.36 released

Bug fix release.

13 July 2011: Winet 6.35 released

IRMA - Inet Remote Management Application.

IRMA is a product to update Winet and other application software automatically over the Internet. The main purpose of IRMA is to roll out Winet updates and configuration changes automatically without having to visit workstations physically, thereby saving manpower and time. It can also be used to roll out or update any application software.

 The Winet help file has been updated to reflect additions since Winet 6.31 including documentation for the user side of IRMA.

27 May 2011: Winet 6.34 released

Windows 7 Compatible.

While it is true that the news has not been updated for five years, development has been going ahead all the time.

 Apart from many bug fixes and minor improvements, the following features, listed in time order, have been added:

- Macro recording and assigning interfaces. It is now much easier to create macros, and a simple interface offers you many ways to play them back.

- A custom drop-down menu has been added for your own definitions.

- Hotspots for 3270 terminals: An interface is provided to switch on various hot spots on your 3270 terminals, as well as to create your own custom ones. Previously it was only available via scripts.

- New Tools menu item - New user interface to view/edit the toolbar items.

- Added Right-Click functions to many terminal facilities.

- Support Windows 7 including 64 bit version.

- New HTML based Help system.

- Inet true-type fonts: InetCons and InetCourier including South African language symbols.

- New menu item "File>Create Shortcut"

- Http proxy connections.

- New interface to select special characters.

- 3270: Natural Report Download.  Natural file uploads can handle both ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files. 

- Multiple translation tables with user interface. Translation table 4 implements IBM EBCDIC CodePage 037 using ANSI CodePage 1252. Translation table 5 implements IBM CodePage 1047 using ANSI CodePage 1252 

- Latest OpenSSL version 1.0.0d

28 March 2006: Winet 6.14 released

Winet and biometric authentication.

We are now able to supply terminal emulators that are linked to biometric authentication hardware like fingprint scanners. This has been used in a nation wide roll out.

Winet and VPN (Virtual Private Networks)

Winet does work with VPNs. See our FAQ page.

New release of Winet Terminals and Printing

Winet 6.14 was released on 28 March 2006. This version has been stable and was tested for some months before the formal release. It is the formal version of Winet 6.13 that has been installed at selected customers for some months and has been used in a big nation wide rollout for one of our customers.

New features in Winet

Custom printer definitions gives much more flexibility in implementing formatted printing on legacy systems.

A Screen Shot option on the File menu to capture the screen(s) to graphic or text files. It allows you to auto capture screens to unique filenames or to append to a text file.

Custom programable buttons may be added to the toolbar and a new button-bar. This allows a whole new level of customization and is very easy to set up.

Hidden/lost windows: If the window was moved out of screen,
Winet resizes it to middle of screen.

Auto reconnect (when your connection was lost) has more options.

All menu commands are now mappable to keyboard shortcuts.

Automation (for script development) has been expanded with a few very usful new faetures.

Diagnostics to solve configuration problems has been expanded.

Winet shall now display the conflicting IP address if "too many copies" are running. This will assist you to find the PC using a wrong licence file or to locate additional Winet installations.

A number of bug fixes were also done.

4 February 2005: Winet 6.11 released

Bug-fix release of Winet Terminals and Printing

Winet 6.11 was quickly released on 4 February 2005 to fix a printing bug in version 6.10.
If you don't notice funny new line breaks in your printing, you are most probably not affected.

New features in Winet

Sometimes your operators need to modify a report/letter slightly before printing. Winet offers the option to open your reports in MSWord before printing them. The Help facility and Merge printing examples have been updated since 6.10.
(Stop Press: The Merge printing method will report an error if the vertical bar character (| 0x7C in hex) appears in your print data. A patch is available if you want to test Merge
printing.)

News

IRMA 6.06beta available for testing since Oct. 2003. IRMA (Inet Remote Manager Application) is a suite of programs to allow system administrator to update and maintain software automatically on many client PCs. It also allows for data distribution and executing of commands remotely. Please contact me if you are interested in testing IRMA.

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14 December 2004: Winet 6.10 released.

This upgrade is free to all users on maintenance and those who bought Winet less than 12 months ago.

Merge printing is a total new concept in formatting legacy printing!
This is the easiest method to specify the full formatting of a report using a PC word processor. It works similar to "mail merge" where a template document is created with fields.

A merge file is a template that can be created in any wysiwyg interactive word processor supporting the Rich Text Format (like MS Word). The data to be printed will replace the field indicators in the document. The merge template document may include graphics, forms and additional stationary data.

For details, see the end of the READ_ME file.

You may download Winet610.exe to install INET Terminals version 6.10. This upgrade is free to all users on maintenance and those who bought Winet less than 12 months ago.

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20 October 2004: Rinet supports IP version 6

Rinet has replaced Inet for DOS as the most popular choice for DOS based and embedded systems. Rinet includes support for IP version 6.

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25 October 2004: Winet 6.09 released.

Some new features and improvements:

Much enhanced printing options:

• Screen prints can be formatted and customized.
• Print more than 1 screen per page.
• Add banner pages, headers and footers to any print job.
• Bold and underline via overtyping on legacy systems now supported.
• Printing to files: The user can be prompted for a filename.
• The 3287 printer auto-detect rich text jobs.

On the terminal emulators:

• Auto reconnect is a new option.
• New full screen commandline option.
• Screen colours can be modified via the improved palette editing user interface.
• Auto font size for the terminal screen.
• A few South African characters were fixed in the Inet fonts.
• 3270 Natural file download and upload improved.
• New automation methods.
• New InetLPDService.exe allows the LPD server to run as a service.

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8 August 2003: Winet 6.06 released.

(Winet 6.05 was only issued to some beta testers.)

Some new features and improvements:

• InetFont now has larger fonts optimized for 1024x768 screens.
• Many improvements have been made to the 3270 and 5250 ranges of terminal emulators.
• The FTP client has been expanded with support for more types of servers and internal mget and mput commands.
• More script examples are included.
• Expanded Help facility.
• Printing from the terminal emulators now possible via script/automation (see PrintScreen.bas).
• Improved graphical display of keyboard mappings.

For details, see the end of the READ_ME file.
You may download Winet606.exe to install INET Terminals version 6.06. (You may also try a TUCOWS site near you.)

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3 March 2003: Rinet 3.69 with updated documentation.

Rinet is the Resident version of Inet for DOS and is still in active development.

Rinet has been expanded and updated in so many ways that we now recommend Rinet as an update to Inet for DOS.

The current version is at available for download to registered users.

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17 April 2003: Winet 6.04 released.

Many new features have been added.

• Inet3270 adds the IND$FILE file transfer protocol for IBM mainframes.
• Inet5250 emulation had major improvements and was expanded to include more structures and facilities.
• Direct printing allows you to add static header and footer files with data or commands to be sent to the printer before and/or after print jobs. It can be used similar to mail merge or template applications.
• The Copy&Paste in terminals now include an AutoCopy option that will automatically put marked text in the clipboard.
• Inet3270 adds "session bound" or SCS printing for the 3287-printer with improved setup facilities. When opening an Inet3270 terminal it can automatically load and connect the 3287 printer.
• For additional security, the following facilities may be disabled by system managers in terminal emulators: All drop down menus, the toolbar (or only selected buttons on the toolbar), the right-click menu, Copy, Paste, ScreenPrint (not the Windows PrintScreen), Write Log, Trace, Script and Read input file.
• Lots of small improvements in the user interface and a few bug fixes.

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