8-bit clean telnet f. DOS/WINDOWS

[Andrzej Kowalski]

At 10:16 11/25/95 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>as librarian of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Heidelberg 
>Univ. I would like to open up our databases (bibliographic and 
>fulltext) to the outside world. In order to access these 
>databases, however, clients have to have a locally 
>installed version of telnet that provides the toggle "strip high 
>bit yes/no"; if set to "no" Chinese and Japanese (or any 
>other "fancy" script) will be displayed properly (provided a 
>local front-end vernacular C/J/K-script processor has been 
>loaded).
>We do have an old version of C-NCSA (developed in Taiwan back in 
>1992), but I am looking for newer software, both for DOS and for 
>WINDOWS. 
>
>Is there somebody "out there" who can give me an ftp address for 
>such pieces of software? I would be most grateful. 
>
>BTW: the databases are held on a SUN Sparc10 server at the 
>institute. 
>
>greetings from foggy Heidelberg
>
>Thomas H. Hahn
>Librarian, network admin etc.
>
>
>
We have a commercial telnet package that we have recently released into the
public domain.  It is called WinTunix - stupid name, we will likely change
it to "KE Wombat" (the KE as in our database software "KE Texpress").  Some
of you may think KE Womabt is an even sillier name!

We wrote WinTunix some years ago specifically as a Telnet front end to our
KE Texpress database engine.  KE Texpress supports multi-byte character sets
- Chineses (Big 5 and one other I don't recall) and Japanese (Shift JIS and
EUC) - as well as European character sets, so we wrote WinTunix specifically
to handle these.

Beyond the multi-byte characters, WinTunix is a decent ANSI/vt100 terminal
emulator that works under Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 (as a 3.1x app).  We
also have a DOS version called Tunix.

WinTunix is available from our Web site http://www.dingo.com - click on the
KE Texpress href.

BTW, have you entertained making your databases available with a WWW/HTML
interface?  We have a module for KE Texpress called KE Texhtml which allows
you to publish your databases on the Web with full query and *update*
capabilities. The Chinese and Japanese support at the KE Texpress server
backend has been tested successfully with Texhtml and WWW browsers.

Greetings also from rainy Vancouver.

Andrzej Kowalski
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