We are proud to announce the official release of Glink Professional Edition 7.1, a real thoroughbred that introduces a new dimension to your Bull, IBM and UNIX host applications.
Glink can be configured to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) through Microsoft's Secure Channel (SChannel) security package to provide security-enabled communications, including identity authentication and secure, private communication through encryption.
All currently supported versions of Microsoft Windows include SSL (SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1) and data encryption as a standard, and require no additional software, for Windows 95 and 98, refer to the Prerequisites section for details of how these must be upgraded to support SSL.
When a secure connection has been established, a small icon of a lock is displayed in the status bar. If the mouse is hovered over the lock, then the servers X.509 credentials are displayed.
An FTP client is now provided with Glink. This runs as a free-standing program and may be started either directly from the Glink folder, or from the transfer menu in Glink. GlinkFTP is also integrated with Glink via the script language, see the script enhancements section below for more detail.
The basic look and feel of Glink has been enhanced to give it a 21st century look.
The main features are the new highlighting toolbars and the possibility of configuring a background wallpaper in the host emulation window and surrounding it with a frame with its own wallpaper (see facelifting section), giving a completely new dimension to old legacy applications.
The toolbars automatically highlight as the mouse moves over them. There are two new bars, a keyboard bar and a function bar, which contain emulation specific buttons. All the bars can be moved and docked at the top or bottom of the Glink window, or they can be parked partially or completely outside the emulation window. Their last positions may be saved on exit. An option to prevent moving of the bars is also available.
The Glink dropdown menus now contain menu-tip images. The Settings menu menu can be configured to be a dropdown menu rather than the Win95 style Control Panel icon box.
Several options have been added to provide for additional automatic facelifting of the emulator screen. These have been grouped in a new dialog box in Settings->Screen. They include:
IBM 3270 and 5250 emulations can now be used in typeahead mode.
The 5250 Field exit keys can be configured on the numeric pad in the IBM 5250 emulation options.
AS/400 error messages sent to the status line can now be configured to automatically unblock the keyboard on the next keypress.
A startup script may now be associated with a particular configuration file.
Names set in the status line with the HOST or NAME commands can now be URLs which will work as hyperlinks.
VBScript or Jscript files can now be started in exactly the same ways you can start a normal Glink script, you can pass input parameters to their Main() function and retrieve return values return values in the $GPARAM script variable.
The OLE script command has been enhanced to work with object collection lists.
The following new commands and variables are available:
FTP |
to transfer a file using FTP |
MSGBOX |
displays a user message in a separate window |
PERFORM EDTRECALL |
to invoke the command recall editor |
SET 3D options |
to set options for 3D variables |
SET DKUCOLOUR |
to set the DKU colour mode |
SET DKUMODEL |
to set the DKU terminal model |
SET FCLICK |
to set a clickable area in the frame wallpaper |
SET FRAME |
to set frame wallpaper and options |
SET FTP |
to set parameters for FTP transfers |
SET RESIZE |
to set the strategy for window resizing |
SET SSL |
to set secure socket operational parameters |
SET WALLPAPER |
to set background wallpaper and options |
$FRAMEPAPER |
provides the current frame wallpaper filename |
$FTP |
provides the status of the current FTP transfer |
$FTPADDRESS |
provides the current ftp host IP address |
$FTPCONFIG |
provides the current ftp configuration file name |
$FTPDEFAULT |
provides the default ftp host name |
$FTPERROR |
provides an error message in the case of a failed FTP transfer. |
$FTPHOST |
provides the current ftp host name |
$FTPMODE |
provides the current ftp connection mode |
$FTPPASSWORD |
provides the current ftp login password |
$FTPRESULT |
provides the completion code for the FTP transfer |
$FTPSILENT |
provides the setting for silent ftp mode |
$FTPTRANSFER |
provides the current ftp transfer mode |
$FTPUSER |
provides the current ftp login user name |
$WALLPAPER |
provides the current wallpaper filename |
Other enhancements
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