Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware

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and host program for

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and compatible operating systems, developed during the 1990s by Bo Bendtsen from

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. The latest release (5.00) arrived in 1997, and the first release arrived on 2 April 1992 (according to the WHATSNEW.500 text file included with version 5.00). Compared to similar programs of its time, Terminate had a large number of built-in features like: a powerful

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with

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cost calculation, Fido Mailer, QWK

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file manager A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or pr ...

, text editor, keyboard mapping,

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suppor

fax and voice-call features, chat, IEMSI,

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mode detection, audio CD player, and a REXX-like scripting language. Supported

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modes included

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, RIP,

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, and others. A number of file transfer protocols like

Zmodem ZMODEM is an inline file transfer protocol developed by Chuck Forsberg in 1986, in a project funded by Telenet in order to improve file transfers on their X.25 network. In addition to dramatically improved performance compared to older protocol ...

were built into the application, along with support for external protocols like HS/Link and BiModem. The built-in support for advanced file transfer protocols made Terminate very popular at the time. The installation program could import the phone book and settings from other applications like: Telix,

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, FrontDoor, BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power, as well as (indirectly)

Minicom Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulator program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled somewhat after the popular MS-DOS program Telix but is open source. Minicom includ ...

and Commo.

External links

Official Web-site
(archived 1998-06-27)

- a June 1995 article from the ''PC Update Magazine'' Terminal emulators DOS software Bulletin board system software {{network-software-stub