Anzio

FTP is the "file transfer protocol" most often used over the Internet. It is even used by most browsers when doing downloads. Starting in version 12.6 of AnzioWin, we included an integrated FTP client that could auto-login to a host, transfer files and provide some user feedback. It could also be used within macros and scripts for AnzioWin.

AnzioWin version 15 introduces SFTP support, FTP over a Secure Shell connection. SFTP encrypts all its data and control sequences during a SFTP session, just as SSH would for a terminal session.

When passthrough printing or screen printing through Anzio returns a printer error in the 5000 range, this usually indicates that some data was passed through from the host and Anzio tried to print it directly to the spooler or to the raw device, bypassing the printer driver.

When you have a host application that does not support passthrough printing (printing that goes through the Anzio telnet session), your options are somewhat limited.

The most common approach is to set up the LPR/LPD protocol to do the remote printing. This works by acting as a back channel from the UNIX spooler to redirect the output through LPR on the host to an LPD server (daemon) on the PC. With our standalone Print Wizard product, we provide PWLPD which is a robust LPD for the PC.

Yes, under the View menu in AnzioWin and Anzio Lite, you can set the particular screen size and font according to your own preferences. Also note that you can zoom (maximize) the window, in which case Anzio uses the full screen and auto-adjusts the font size to fit to the screen resolution. If the window is NOT zoomed, you can set the font size, and the window size will follow. You can also walk through screen font changes quickly by doing an Alt-L (for "larger", to step up one size), Alt-S ("smaller", step down one size) and Alt-Z (to zoom to full screen).

Passthrough printing allows a host computer to send a print job through the user's terminal (emulator) and out to an attached printer. It is sometimes called "local print", "attached print" or "slave print". This means the user must be logged in to the host. The host then sends a sequence of characters that causes the telnet or terminal emulation software to redirect its output to a local printer until a similar sequence is received to turn off the passthrough printing.

If you have just installed a new printer, and other Windows programs can print to it, but Anzio won't, you may have a compatibility problem. You may need to get a different printer, or else upgrade from Anzio Lite to AnzioWin. Details follow.

AnzioWin and Anzio Lite work well with terminal servers and in running them from file servers. However, do remember that AnzioWin and Anzio Lite licenses are on a per PC user. On a file server or terminal server this refers to the number of nodes that will have access to the server.

In order to set AnzioWin or Anzio Lite up to run from the server, install the product on the server and permit access to the users. That's it! Well almost. Two things that may be a headache:

See our document on Using Anzio to Connect to Multiple Host Systems. This will describe how to set Anzio up for multiple host connections.

The easiest way to do this requires a USB memory device, often known as a "thumb drive". Bring up Anzio Lite or AnzioWin on a PC where it works properly. Insert the thumb drive in a USB port on that PC, and note its drive letter. In Anzio, go to the File menu, then click on "Save settings as" (or "Save defaults as").  In the File Save dialog that pops up, navigate to the thumb drive, and save it there with a ".DEF" file extension.

Anzio, and telnet in general, is a connection oriented protocol, requiring the connection remain up during a session's duration. However, network devices, traffic, auto-disconnects, etc., can cause the connection to be lost. Neither Anzio nor Windows has an auto-disconnect feature, but are dependent on the network staying active.

Sometimes you can fine tune the TCP/IP parameters to not respond quite so quickly or to retry more often before determining a connection as severed.