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what's New in KoalaTerm

Click the following links to see the new features in each KoalaTerm version.

What's New in Version 4.1
What's New in Version 3.4
What's New in Version 3.2
What's New in Version 3.1
What's New in Version 3.0

What's New in KoalaTerm 4.1

The best VT terminal emulator gets even better! At Foxit Software, we keep our promise to bring the best to our valued customers. Upgrading is always free!

• New support to soft character set: Soft character set is a feature of VT320/VT420 terminals and not found on any affordable emulation programs. KoalaTerm now supports DECDLD command which allows host application to send any customized font to KoalaTerm. With this new feature, your application can display real graphic, special characters, or just alternative fonts on KoalaTerm screen! If you have such applications like word processing, system monitoring, and other graphic applications, KoalaTerm 4.1 is the perfect replacement for your VT terminals!
• Refreshed Larger Buttons: With labels on each of those larger buttons on the toolbar, you don't need to guess what those buttons will do anymore!
• New record-and-playback "MACRO" button: It's an exciting new feature added to KoalaTerm 4.1. Although previous KoalaTerm version has the most capable script in the toolbar facilities among all terminal emulators, it often takes some time for a terminal user to learn how to write those scripts. Now with this all new macro recording feature, you don't need to write a single line of script to make your terminal session much more efficient and convenient! Just press the MACRO button, do what you would normally do to finish some tasks, press the MACRO button again, then all your typings, be it normal characters, or function keys, will be automatically recorded as a KoalaTerm script, and you can assign the script to a customized button or a mapped key. Later on, if you want to repeat what you have done, just press the assigned button or mapped key!
• Revived "RECONN" button: This button exists in previous KoalaTerm versions, but it never worked. Now the reconnecting feature has been added to KoalaTerm 4.1. If you choose not to close the window after disconnected from the host, you will see this button get enabled after you closed a session, and you can reconnect to the host by just press the button, just one click! And your login script, if set up, will also be re-executed!

What's New in Version 3.4

• Display Attribute: This new-setup setting in Color mapping page enable color-mapped character to display on emulation window with their own attributes.

• New Line-Status Display Mode: Sometimes you may need your session window to display status line while communicating with the host. Now Display Status Line in Display page of KoalaTerm Settings will give you help.

• Enable Blink Text: When your host sends character or text with blink attribute and you also hope to remain this feature in your session screen, then you can realize by checking Enable Blink Text in Display Page.

• Answer Back Message: Sometimes the host applications could not identify the emulation windows while negotiating with multi port terminal emulator. Thus the host might send an inquiry asking for terminal ID. In this case using Answer Back dialog box in Display Settings can help you communicate with your host more friendly.

• New Toolbar for finding text: Now the new added toolbar----"find & repeat the last find "in KoalaTerm window can save user time in finding text and improve the efficiency.

• DBCS support: Good news for DBCS system users like Chinese and Japanese. Now you can enable "DBCS" support in "International" page of settings dialog, also make sure your Primary Character Set is set to "ISO Latin-1". Then you will be able to view double byte characters.

• New printing feature: Now transparent printing supports output directly to printer ports. You can use this new feature by setting the "Print To" option in "Print" page of KoalaTerm Settings dialog.

• Save everything: Sometimes the host application erase terminal screen before new output, and KoalaTerm used to discard those erased text and not put into history (scroll-back) buffer. Now, with "Save Everything" option enabled in "Terminal" page of KoalaTerm Settings dialog, you can view everything in the history buffer after they got erased.

• File transfer: Finally KoalaTerm has ZModem support. Like all other KoalaTerm good features, it's very easy to use. Just run your favorite ZModem program on your host, and start transferring! When you use Secure KoalaTerm, the file transfer will be secured! Moving your sensitive stuff around has never been so easy! Click here to see how!

What's New in Version 3.1

• Version 3.1: Now bitmap fonts are accepted as well as TrueType fonts.

• Version 3.11: Use -E option in the command line, you will be able to edit the session file without actually connecting to the host.

• Version 3.11: Be able to handle URL style command line issued by web browsers.

• Version 3.11: A new template added for easy connecting to 123 Terminal Server for Windows 95/98 (another quality product from Foxit Software Co.)

• Version 3.12: Windows position will be restored when connected with a session file.

• Version 3.12: International characters are able to be captured into files.

• Version 3.13: Added mouse support to Linux OS. You can enable this feature in "Terminal" page of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog.

• Version 3.14: Better support to auto-sizing the font according to both height and width of the terminal screen.

What's New in Version 3.0

• Improved transparent printing (printer-controller mode): You can redirect the print out to Windows printer handling if your host isn't control the print out. In this way you'll be able to change the font used for print out.

• New Chat-Line input mode: You can select "Chat Line" from "View" menu to show or hide the chat line input box. With chat line, you can input more efficiently especially with a slow link. Your input will stay on local buffer until you press <ENTER> key.

• New 132 column font support:You are able to specify a different font for 132 column mode. To enable the different font, uncheck the "Same as 80 Cols" option in "Display" tab of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog. When you register KoalaTerm with us, you can get 5 new TrueType fonts free from Foxit (contact sales@foxitsoftware.com). Among them you'll find some font suitable for your 132 column applications.

• New KoalaScript: powerful scripting language for automating and customizing KoalaTerm in many aspects. For more information, visit Introduction to KoalaScript.

• Improved button palette: now up to 32 buttons (arranged in 4 pages) can be defined. And the button palette will automatically sized according to the frame window size. To show/hide the button palette, select "Button Palette" from "View" menu.

• New session title display: By default the host name will be shown at the beginning of the main window caption (so you'll see the host name in the Windows task bar instead of always "KoalaTerm Version ..."). You can also specify your own session title in the "General" tab of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog.

• New session file format: KoalaTerm 3.0 has a totally redesigned format for session files. This new format will ensure compatibility backward as well as forward. KoalaTerm 3.0 will NOT accept session files generated by previous versions of KoalaTerm. A converter utility, mktfile.exe, has been released along with KoalaTerm 3.0 package.

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