TM G&RGLINK PROFESSIONAL EDITION ENTERPRISE EDITION Glink Release Notes G&R GALLAGHER http://www.glink.com/glink/ ROBERTSON Microsoft, Windows, MS, are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. IBM and PC are registered trademarks of IBM Corp. Glink Enterprise Edition, version 8.6 Glink Professional Edition, version 8.6 © Gallagher & Robertson A/S 1987-2019 All Rights Reserved GALLAGHER & ROBERTSON A/S, Grini Næringspark 3, N-1361 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 23357800 www: http://www.glink.com/ e-mail: [email protected] Contents Contents Contents ................................................................................................ i Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Warranty .................................................................................................................. 2 Support .................................................................................................................... 2 Release notes........................................................................................ 3 What's new ............................................................................................................... 3 What’s new in Glink 8.6 ................................................................................ 3 Help......................................................................................................... 3 Secure connections .................................................................................. 3 Script FRDTEXT command..................................................................... 3 Script $TURN ......................................................................................... 3 What was new in Glink 8.5 ............................................................................ 4 Windows 10............................................................................................. 4 New URL option ..................................................................................... 4 Script NEW command ............................................................................. 4 Script filter and terminator characters ....................................................... 4 What was new in Glink 8.4 ............................................................................ 5 Windows 8 .............................................................................................. 5 Internet lookup ........................................................................................ 5 User distribution enhancements ................................................................ 5 Script enhancements ................................................................................ 5 Miscellaneous enhancements .................................................................... 6 Fixed problems ........................................................................................ 6 What was new in Glink 8.3? .......................................................................... 7 Activation and check for updates ............................................................. 7 Command line options ............................................................................. 8 General emulation .................................................................................... 8 VT emulation ........................................................................................... 8 Operating systems .................................................................................... 8 Telnet keepalive ....................................................................................... 8 Unicode entry .......................................................................................... 8 Help files on a server................................................................................ 9 Help for Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 .............................................. 9 Gallagher & Robertson Glink Release Notes i Contents Script commands ..................................................................................... 9 Ggate/DGA debugging ............................................................................ 9 What was new in Glink 8.2? ........................................................................ 10 Windows 7 qualification and approval .................................................... 10 Windows Server 2008 qualification and approval ................................... 10 New functionality ................................................................................... 10 FTP improvements ................................................................................. 11 Script enhancements .............................................................................. 12 What was new in Glink 8.1? ........................................................................ 13 Windows Vista qualification and approval .............................................. 13 New functionality for Windows Vista ..................................................... 13 New product .......................................................................................... 14 Glink Enterprise Edition ......................................................................... 15 New functionality ................................................................................... 15 Script enhancements .............................................................................. 18 Command line options ........................................................................... 18 FTP improvements ................................................................................. 18 What was new in Glink 8.0? ........................................................................ 20 New Glink look ..................................................................................... 20 New platforms ....................................................................................... 20 New product .......................................................................................... 20 New facelift tool .................................................................................... 21 New functionality ................................................................................... 21 What was new in Glink 7.2? ........................................................................ 28 What was new in Glink Professional edition 7.1? ......................................... 36 What was new in Glink Professional edition 7.0? ......................................... 40 What was new in Glink Standard edition 6.2? .............................................. 43 What was new in release 6.1? ...................................................................... 48 What was new in release 6.0? ...................................................................... 51 What was new in release 5.4? ...................................................................... 53 What was new in release 5.3.0? ................................................................... 55 What was new in release 5.2.0? ................................................................... 59 What was new in release 5.1.0? ................................................................... 62 What was new in release 5.0.1? ................................................................... 64 What was new in release 5.0.0? ................................................................... 65 What was new in release 4.6.3 ..................................................................... 69 What was new in 4.6.2? ............................................................................... 72 Notes for users of Glink/DOS................................................................................. 75 File names ................................................................................................... 75 Configuration files ....................................................................................... 75 Dial directory .............................................................................................. 75 Environment variables ................................................................................. 76 Keyboard files ............................................................................................. 76 ii Glink Release Notes Gallagher & Robertson Contents Script files ................................................................................................... 76 Gallagher & Robertson Glink Release Notes iii Introduction Introduction Glink is a terminal emulator designed for general-purpose communications work. Glink Professional Edition and Glink Enterprise Edition are Window 32-bit versions, supporting all the current versions of Windows, 32bit and 64bit. Android, iOS and Java versions of Glink are also available as separate packages. For more details on Glink functionality, refer to the User's Guide, for details on Glink configuration, refer to the Administaror's Guide. This Glink Release Notes document is intended for system and network administrators and covers what's new in this release and previous releases. Please read these notes. Gallagher & Robertson Glink Release Notes 1 Introduction Warranty While Gallagher & Robertson A/S have made every effort to ensure that this software package should function as described, no warranty of any kind, express or implied, is made by us. Gallagher & Robertson