Terminate (terminat.exe) was a
shareware
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modem terminal and
host
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Places
* Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
People
*Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
* Michel Host ...
program for
MS-DOS and compatible operating systems, developed during the 1990s by Bo Bendtsen from
Denmark.
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
phone book with
long distance calling cost calculation,
Fido Mailer,
QWK offline mail reader,
file manager, text editor, keyboard mapping,
ISDN suppor
fax and voice-call features, chat, IEMSI,
VGA mode detection, audio CD player, and a
REXX
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-like scripting language.
Supported
terminal emulation modes included
ASCII,
Avatar,
ANSI,
RIP
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...
,
VT102, and others. A number of file transfer protocols like
Zmodem were built into the application, along with support for external protocols like
HS/Link
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and
BiModem
BiModem was one of the last file transfer protocols developed for use in bulletin board systems. It was created by Erik Labs, and was revolutionary for its day.
Unlike the predominant protocols of the day ( XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM), BiModem allow ...
. 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
Telix is a telecommunications program originally written for DOS by Colin Sampaleanu and released in 1986.
On October 10, 1988 in the release note for Telix 3.10, Sampaleanu announced the creation of 'Exis Inc.'; name used to develop the software ...
,
RemoteAccess,
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, BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power, as well as (indirectly)
Minicom 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
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